Quotes About Narrative

Movies are] like writing history with lightning.

Para valer la pena, una vida debe ser digna de contarse, me digo cada vez que me va mal, porque ya sé que los destinos torcidos se parecen a la rueda de la fortuna. No importa qué tan arriba o abajo estés, de todos modos vas a dar la vuelta.

Le sens n'est pas très important. Ce qui l'est, c'est le récit caché au fond des mots. Maintenant, vous êtes en train d'essayer de le faire remonter. Votre cÅ"ur est en train de tenter de faire réapparaître des choses qui ont disparu.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

What is the point of making up a story about ourselves that we hate? Whatever story we come up with is going to be different from the one that other people have created about us anyway—you can be sure of that.

There seems to be a 1600 year gap in pole shift references after Seneca, because as Christianity spread, the Church formed and covered up evidence of anything that did not support their biblical narrative.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

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History is a fable agreed upon.

Northrop Frye said that a poet is a myth's way of making another myth.

I address J as a living writer in greater detail, as well as the Hebraic culture in which she attained her scholarship, in my previous books appearing after The Book of J (in particular, Abraham: The First Historical Biography, The Book of David, and The Lost Book of Paradise). And in the The Book of J, coauthored with Harold Bloom, I began to describe the textuality of J's narrative, while both Bloom and I first addressed the likelihood of J being a woman.

Legend is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and legend tells us about a million men,

History is not truth — it records not what occurred but what is remembered.

good art illustrates anything at all, it's likely to be a story you didn't even know needed telling.

La trama è roba per gente morta.

autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself.

We're not in an Age of Politics, we're in an Age of Netflix. It's who can tell the most compelling story who wins.

The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.

This book is meant to tell the story of Indian lives, and Indian histories, in such a way as to render those histories and those lives as something much more, much greater and grander, than a catalog of pain.

be included among those Americans the modern theologian Donald W. Shriver Jr. has called "honest patriots," those who manifest an ironic-tragic love of country by learning, narrating, and working through its past of contradiction and evil, and not by evading it.

By ignoring how white people's racial habits have been shaped by the racial practices of a nation deceived by the narrative of racial difference, white Christianity has failed to disciple men and women into the kingdom of God.

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story

It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the clothes we wear.