Imagine Quote by Robert Coover

“We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

— Fred Armisen

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

— Dani Shapiro

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being…

— Dani Shapiro

We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is…

— Patricia Hampl

“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in…

— Daniel J. Siegel

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us…

— Joss Whedon

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

— Holly Smale

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

— Toni Morrison

When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And…

— Leslie Jamison