Quotes about Narrative

There's a way out for you personally. And you can lead by example. Let's put you in a position to celebrate the positive. It's easy to get trapped talking about what's bad, but after today, we are no longer going to choose easy. We are going to decide to celebrate the positive. Together, let's change the narrative and talk about what's good.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

The reign of imagology begins where history ends

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one. Always? I ask. Always! she confirms. Good stories teach!

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.