Quotes About Narrative

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

It doesn't matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention. Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

History is what people want to remember.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

All in all, Maggy concluded, she had done right. Tocohol knew that she could not see the ship from here, so Maggy had not lied to a friend. She had told a pleasing story, and she was very proud of her new ability.

We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we work to weave a new cloth. If the landscape, the characters, and the creatures here call up the old tales told the beside the fire, when stories went from mouth to ear instead of page to eye then I have woven well and the dreamer continues to dream.

That is --- we think differently, we now and then see things differently...--- Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.---

By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Sure," I say. "But I don't have much to tell. Do you want

As Babette Rothschild says, "Often talking about what happened will be important for the survivor in the immediate aftermath of the event. Telling and re-telling the story to caring individuals may help prevent dissociation, and aid in integrating the experience."20

Without a belief in a fair and moral universe, a sense of control of one's fate, a coherent sense of self, and a continuous personal narrative, life makes no sense. Living becomes a pointless exercise of getting through the day. People reeling from trauma are thrown into a crisis of meaning that goes far beyond disillusionment; they are plunged into an abyss of despair."18

I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.

It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.

The story of who you are, were, will be: you don't have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you'll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.

But my daddy always said that story was a fish tale. That was his way of describing a trumped-up story, like a whopper

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate between what really happened and what is pure invention. Everything becomes a narrative and sounds fictitious even if it's true.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión.

y sin embargo nos va la vida y se nos va la vida en escoger y rechazar y seleccionar, en trazar una línea que separe esas cosas que son idénticas y haga de nuestra historia una historia única que recordemos y pueda contarse.

A verdade nunca resplandece, como diz a fórmula, porque a única verdade é a que não se conhece nem se transmite, a que não se traduz em palavras nem em imagens, a encoberta e não averiguada, e talvez por isso se conte tanto ou se conte tudo, para que nunca tenha ocorrido nada, uma vez que se conta

Furcsa kor ez a miénk" – gondoltam. "Most mindenrÅ'l lehet beszélni, és mindenkit meg kell hallgatni, akármit is tett; és nem csak azért, hogy védekezhessen, hanem mert a meséje mintha önmagában is érdekes volna.

nadie renuncia a la posibilidad de contar algo anómalo.