Quotes About Narrative

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. Con

Los hechos de guerra suenan pueriles en los tiempos de relativa paz, y que algo haya ocurrido no es suficiente para admitir su relato, no basta con que sea cierto para resultar plausible. La verdad se vuelve inverosímil a veces con el paso del tiempo; se aleja, y entonces parece fábula, o ya no más la verdad.

todo puede ser ridículo o trágico según quién lo cuente y cómo se cuente

Es más bien que estar junto a alguien consiste en buena medida en pensar en voz alta, esto es, en pensarlo todo dos veces en lugar de una, una con el pensamiento y otra con el relato, el matrimonio es una institución narrativa.

Lo que se da es idéntico a lo que no se da, lo que descartamos o dejamos pasar idéntico a lo que tomamos y asimos, lo que experimentamos idéntico a lo que no probamos, 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 histórica única que recordemos y pueda contarse.

La vida no es contable, y resulta extraordinario que los hombres lleven todos los siglos de que tenemos conocimiento dedicados a ello, empeñados en contar lo que no se puede, sea en forma de mito, de poema épico, de crónica, anales, actas, leyenda o cantar de gesta, romances de ciego o corridos, de evangelio, santoral, historia, biografía, novela o elogio fúnebre, de película, de confesiones, memorias, de reportaje, da lo mismo.

What is the story we are telling ourselves that is giving rise to how we feel? What is our story missing? What might the other person's story be? Almost

Stop Arguing About Who's Right: Explore Each Other's Stories

In the normal course of things, we don't notice the ways in which our story of the world is different from other people's.

Arguing Blocks Us from Exploring Each Other's Stories

Expressing Your Views and Feelings Your goal should be to express your views and feelings to your own satisfaction. You hope that the other person will understand what you are saying, and perhaps be moved by it, but you can't count on that. What you can do is say, as well as you can, what is important for you to say about your views, intentions, contributions, feelings, and identity issues. You can share your story.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

The historian will tell you what happened. The Novelist will tell you what it felt like. And the historical fiction writer does both!

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative...A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

I feel such stillness, the stillness of listening to a story whose end I know. I am looking at times when people had a story to enact and the streets they walked upon were narrative passages. What kind of word is infrastructure ? It is a word that proves we have lost our city. Our streets are for transit. Our stories are disassembled, the skyscrapers crowding us scoff at the idea of a credible culture.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

The more negative emotion there is in a story, the heavier and more impenetrable it becomes.

Every fragment of self-talk is a little story in the head that goes around, and then you look at reality through the lens of the little story.

Only thus may we carry the truth to those without, and though the likelihood of our narrative being given credence is, I grant you, remote, so wedded are mortals to their stupid infatuation for impossible superstitions, we should be craven cowards indeed were we to shirk the plain duty which confronts us.

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.