Quotes About Narrative

There's ways to survive these times, Doubledick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

Everything, sooner or later, transforms into story.

Oh! a real ghost story!" cried Helen. "Do let's hear it.

if they told their own stories, our whole society could fall apart. They have to think it's nothing. But—

We are surrounded by story.

You used to be alive, now you're almost mythic.

We are our songs and films.

But this is a story of the end. don't you want to hear it

Os deuses de uma era se tornam os demônios da seguinte ou, quando não têm destino semelhante, acabam em ambiente mais seguro nos contos de fadas ou, como nos dias de hoje, em histórias em quadrinhos. Uma onda de iconiclastia comumente se forma a cada mudança das eras astrológicas, e os objetos ou 'as coisas' antes venerados são feitos em pedaços por escavações arqueológicas séculos depois.

Life plots elegantly.

Storytelling can be more than a blog post, essay, or book. It can be an emoji, a meme, a selfie, or a tweet. It can become a movement for social change.

These stories do not seek to explain the meaning of disability or to inspire or elicit empathy. Rather, they show disabled people simply being in our own words, by our own accounts. Disability Visibility is also one part of a larger arc in my own story as a human being.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.

I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.

Hay muchas mentes imaginativas aquí, que en ausencia de hechos se inventarán una historia interesante para rellenar el vacío. De forma que nuestra fuerza es nuestra debilidad.

there are two types of people in the world-those who matter to his story and those who don't.

Rather than following a [genealogical] 'line', I find myself drawn to all the people I encounter, including those who, only by the most obtuse reckoning, can be thought of as relatives. Every life deserves telling; none is without drama and change.

Fairies weren't always pretty mites. That was just tales people told for babies.

Stories are the way you look at the world. . . . stories are your salvation.

I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique.

Talking about history is not like living it, I guess. Some people have more choice than others.

Our history is written in our rocks just as surely as it is in monastic chronicles, census returns or the stones and bones of archaeological

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.