Quotes About Narrative

And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.

You want to hear a story? Well, buckle the fuck up." From: What the Hell Did I Just Read

Each story, good and bad, short or long--from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness--they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Knowing your full true story, telling your full true story, living your full true story--it seems like the most basic right of every human being.

Those are such beautiful words aren't they? Happy ending?" Lilly says. They are. They so are. But after all she's seen, Nash doesn't know if she believes in those particular words. She believes in something intricate and thorny, she thinks then. What she believes is that the story goes on.

Write the story. Don't write sentences.

Every painting tells a story.

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.

A single recipe holds countless stories.

I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself.

Further editing deepens a story.

I can't sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.

Every object holds a story.

Sometimes you're the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

Just surrender to the story.

It's always more than just a story.

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Take your ego out of your story.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

Each of us get to choose the movie of our life. Not only that, but we're the main character, the director, and the producer. We get to choose how we want it to be.From the Soul of Uncertainty

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.

Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage.