Storytelling Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

“Story is one of the foundation stones of the human mind along with rhythm and chant. If a collection of facts lacks a narrative…

— Frank Vehafric

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath…

— Ali Smith

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety to paint…

— Deanna L. Lawlis

“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative,”

— Ann Leckie

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

“analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).”

— James K.A. Smith

“Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.”

— Ian McEwan

“True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication”

— Bilal Tanweer

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

— Wes Moore

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of…

— Peter Straub