Quotes About Narrative

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

To tell a story is to take power over it.

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it's story.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

The facts of a man's life ain't very important, but it seems like they should get said anyways.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,And thereby hangs a tale.

Lucrece swears he did her wrong.

Still question'd me the story of my lifeFrom year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunesThat I have pass'd.

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

Sadece roman duygu sömürüsü yapmadan anlatabilir.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.