Quotes About Narrative

don't expect me to be all dear diary this and dear diary that

The goal of using stories isn't to write better stories. The goal of product development isn't to make products.

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

Interaction design is all about finding the user's truth and telling it as a narrative. Software development is all about breaking those narratives into tiny, functional chunks and implementing and integrating them.

Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written.

Stories get their name not from how they're supposed to be written, but from how they're supposed to be used.

If you're not getting together to have rich discussions about your stories, then you're not really using stories.

the real value of stories isn't what's written down on the card. It comes from what we learn when we tell the story.

Because sports and mythology often intertwine, the Game 6 narrative has often been one that evokes the best of a cheesy feel-good Hollywood production. Not only did Johnson take the jump ball, he won it, dribbled down the court, did a 360-degree midair flip and dunked over Julius Erving—blindfolded while eating a slice of cheesecake. Not quite.

Okay, obviously I didn't die or I wouldn't be able to relate this tender little narrative. Unless, of course, I'm a ghost, writing these words through an Ouija board. That would be pretty cool, but also incredibly time consuming, and the human I was channeling through would probably try to steal all the credit.

RATS. In sewers. In religions. In words like pirate, desperate, and narrative. Rats infest this glossary as surely as words and mushrooms.

History is written by the last fellow at the typewriter.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

God made man because He loves stories.

This was the first story I had ever heard in which the Jews were not the ones to be afraid. Until this moment I had believed that the mission of the Jews was to represent the trembling of history rather than the wind which made it tremble

I had wanted more, and I had not wanted more. A familiar old tale, from the lives of girls.

Moreover, when I see Felipe fly off the handle in public, it messes around with my cherished personal narrative about what a gentle and tenderhearted guy I have chosen to love, and that, frankly, pisses me off more than anything else. If there is one indignity I shall never endure gracefully, it is watching people mess around with my most cherished personal narratives about them.

I learned that not only does everybody have a story that would stop your heart, but everybody wants to tell you about it.

It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

At first I thought I would study literature. Then, however, I realised I loved true stories even better than imaginary ones.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.