Quotes about Narrative

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Not many people get argued into thinking differently, but experiences and stories move us, especially when we have the humility to listen and view the world from a different lens, from someone else's eyes.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.

knew policy; I knew how to consume and process information. It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn't a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.

The Bible is basically and overall a narrative - an immense, sprawling, capacious narrative.