Quotes About Narratives

Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell.

Britain First is an extremist organisation which seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which spread lies and stoke tensions.

I am doing what I can to expand the tent and bring up other people and make sure we are telling different kinds of stories.

I wanted the Israeli mainstream audience to meet different kinds of Arabs - not just terrorists or politicians - and to listen to their language and their stories.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

When a movie or TV show is too heavily larded with these moments, you may be looking at the result of interference from producers and executives. They've trained themselves to see stories as connective tissues fusing together various categories of gratification. This is why so many would-be blockbusters play more like hodge-podges of disparate stimuli than satisfyingly integrated narratives.

Maybe there is no such thing as rain; there are only raindrops, each with its own story.

Stories tell us how we should live.

They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

Yet the Leatherstocking's positive twist on genocidal colonialism was based on the reality of invasion, squatting, attacking, and colonizing of the Indigenous nations. Neither Filson nor Cooper created that reality. Rather, they created the narratives that captured the experience and imagination of the Anglo-American settler, stories that were surely instrumental in nullifying guilt related to genocide and set the pattern of narrative for future US writers, poets, and historians.

It [this book] aims to confront the violence implicit in U.S. society from the moment of its conception, and the various narratives and forces that have taken shape to deny the consequences of that violence by popularizing and commercializing it.

Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories.

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

Ugyanis írogatok olykor egy-egy elbeszélést. - Olykor elolvasok egyet-egyet. - Köszönöm. - Elbeszéléseket általában, nem az önét.

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first a literary critic, who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying He deserves.

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be.

You and me will die the way we lived; telling each other stories to make it mean something.