Quotes About Narratives

Furthermore, there is much more involved in the complex narratives of abduction experiences than human trauma per se.

This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories.

For nothing ever ends, really; stories lead to other stories, journeys across a thousand miles of ocean lead to journeys across a continent, and the meanings and interpretations of these stories are legion. 'Origins' are simply where we choose to pick up the story, dictating (and dictated by) what kind of story it is we wish to tell. 'Outcomes' are where we wearily draw to a close.

Both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana survive in several versions, the earliest of which are at least five hundred years later than the Vedas. Yet their core narratives seem to relate to events from a period prior to all but the Rig Veda.

When most of us use the word "myth" in conversation, we refer to something that is not true. When historians of religion use it, they generally refer to a representation of the sacred in words. When anthropologists use it, they often refer to narratives that tell about the formation of some social institution or behavior. None of the definitions, however, will hold directly for the characters and stories this book treats.

They build narratives to make things make sense. To make whatever they're thinking of doing seem normal.

Lies are stories.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

There were these times, is what I am saying, where the people I met were interesting. And their stories interwove!

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

All great legends and all Hall of Fame fighters have their storylines.

What is China but a people and their stories?

Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives is a still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic-the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?