Narrative Story Quotes
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Narrative Story Quotes & Sayings
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I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.
— Brian Selznick
Story was magic. Magic was story. Memory was also story, disparate events linked together in our mind to create a narrative.
— Jim C. Hines
The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
— Jen Pollock Michel
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
— Roger Zelazny
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
— Tim Vine
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
— Walter Kirn
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
— Michael Graves
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
— Cheryl Strayed
Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
— Catherynne M Valente
It was a war about fear, he thought, not figures on the ground. It was a war of narrative, a story of a war, and it grew in the telling.
— Lavie Tidhar
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
— Nick Cave
Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
— S. Kelley Harrell
I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.
— Alison Owen
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
— Hilary Mantel
I know this hasn't been a seamless narrative. I've had to shatter the story and string its fragments out along a death lasting decades.
— Peter Watts
Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.
— Daniel Kahneman
The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.
— Chris Avellone
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
— Damon Runyon
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
— Romola Garai
I wanted to know the denouement of your life story. I have no interest in the narrative.
— Debasish Mridha
Debt ... that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
— Margaret Atwood
Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.
— Deborah L. Parker
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
— Barry Ritholtz
Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story.
— Lily King
A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
— Isaac Babel
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
— Aminatta Forna
History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.
— Thomas C. Foster
People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.
— Chester Elijah Branch
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
— Paul Ricoeur
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.
— James Gunn
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
— Scott Bradfield
Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
— Regina Spektor
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
— Kenneth R. Miller
Story should be a descent
the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. — Chuck Wendig
the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. — Chuck Wendig
Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
— Ambrose Bierce
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
— Bruce Feiler
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
— Ray McKinnon
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
— Madeleine L'Engle