Quotes about Narrative

The real war will never get in the books.

Story is the bandage of the broken. Sutures of the shattered. The tapestry upon which we write our lives. Upon which we lay the bodies of the dying and the about-to-come-to-life. And if it's honest, true, hiding nothing, revealing all, then it is a raging river and those who ride it find they have something to give—that they are not yet empty.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.

It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117