Books Quote by N.D. Wilson Download Open image ““We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.”” — N.D. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Food for thought Growth Narrative Reading Storytelling
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, a story is just the thing we tell ourselves to escape the ordinariness of a life that has no tale to tell at… — A.J. Grayson Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
“We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible.” — Stephen Apkon Copy Share Image
“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
“Stories are vehicles for conveying who we are, what is important, and what ought to be done..” — David Vermette Copy Share Image
“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He was a man with eyebrows, or maybe they were eyebrows with a man. Ownership would have been hard to establish, and Cyrus couldn’t… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.) If God gives you… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
