Quotes About Narrative

one cannot become a follower of Jesus in this Gospel's narrative world without surrendering a position of privilege.

And sometimes, the "best" stories are the "true" ones!

of the story would refer to the deity simply as "God." That is, the doublets lined up into two groups of parallel versions of stories. Each group was almost always consistent about the name of the deity that it used.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Each man's life is a tome of episodes. Consider all the moments of your life enumerated one by one with full description.

Grandma's lie were more interesting, even historical.

But witnesses will say a good deal to make a long story out of a short happening.

Life became an interruption of my description of it.

And what do all good stories do? They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren't.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

No one can ever be abandoned, anywhere, ever. Full-out, four-alarm, symphonic narrative mayhem plays out all around them. She has no idea, and there's no way he can let her know. Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.

No one can ever be abandoned, anywhere, ever. Fullout, four-alarm, symphonic narrative mayhem plays out all around them. She has no idea, and there's no way he can let her know. Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.

People want a better story than they get." The wild-haired sadhu leans forward so fast he almost pitches out of his wheelchair. "Yes! And what do all good stories do?" There are no takers. Neelay holds up his arms and extends his palms in the oddest gesture. In another moment, leaves will grow from his fingers. Birds will come and nest in them. "They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren't.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Russo

My purpose was to capture a physical state or movement that carried a strong subjective impression, an accomplishment which seemed supremely worth struggling for. If I could fasten the mind of the reader upon words so firmly that he would forget words and be conscious only of his response, I felt that I would be in sight of knowing how to write narrative.

The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.

No story ever ends, does it? It just leads into others.

Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he'd picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.

We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply read it.

Their parts were fixed—Graham was the villain, Ewan took the role of worthy leading man, Nick was his long-suffering sidekick, and Emily was forever the adolescent ingenue, the moody daughter whose life had been blighted by everyone else (apparently). Gloria herself was offstage, playing the woman in the kitchen.