Quotes About Narratives

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

There is no history, only histories.

History is fables agreed upon.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

a fundamental rule of journalism, which is to tell a story and stick to it. The narratives of journalism (significantly called "stories"), like those of mythology and folklore, derive their power from their firm, undeviating sympathies and antipathies. Cinderella must remain good and the stepsisters bad. "Second stepsister not so bad after all" is not a good story.

A veteran commander worried about winning, not playing to an audience. Narratives were far easier to shape than battles, and they could be composed in safety and at leisure.

Narratives were far easier to shape than battles.

Ask yourself where you're complicit in other people's stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don't, don't. You're not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you'll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.

Teenagers, flooded with destabilizing hormones and a longing for elsewhere, are particularly prone to the seductive power of dark narratives.

There are a lot of sad stories. It seems like everybody has one to tell.

We are all bodies, but the dying body starts decaying right before our eyes. And those narratives that tell us what it's like to live, and die, inside those bodies are helpful to all of us, because no matter how old we are, our bodies never stop being mysterious to us.