Narratives Quote by Jordan Poole

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

— Ambrose Bierce

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

— Ben Gibbard

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

— David Antin

“narrative bias—a bias in that when given the option, you prefer to give and receive information in narrative format.”

— David McRaney

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

— Hannah Arendt

Stories have a way of telling themselves.

— W. Earl Brown

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full…

— Laurie Penny

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,

— Ian Mcewan

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

— Jeanette Winterson

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

— Rick Atkinson

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered…

— Anne Applebaum