Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… — Umberto Eco
Musicâ€™s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. Thereâ€™s always music. If Iâ€™m not playing it, Iâ€™m listening to… — Charles de Lint
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it.… — Donald Miller
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… — Joe Hill
The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story â€“ of course that is how we all… — Jeanette Winterson
â€¦everything has a narrative, really, and if you canâ€™t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, youâ€™re not… — Catherynne M. Valente
Once I start work on a project, I donâ€™t stop and I donâ€™t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I donâ€™t write every… — Stephen King
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides
To be ourselves we must have ourselves â€“ possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must â€œrecollectâ€ ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative,… — Oliver Sacks
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we… — Cheryl Strayed
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't… — Jessica Stern
By all means, avoid wordsâ€”threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line… — Margaret Atwood
Itâ€™s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love… — Anthony Bourdain
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I… — Caitlin Moran
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or… — Tullian Tchividjian
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It… — Che Guevara
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us. — John Scalzi
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences. — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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