Quotes about Narrative
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
— CS Lewis
Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.
— Max Lucado
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
— Elie Wiesel
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.
— Nicole Kidman
Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.
— Max Lucado
Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.
— Ted Dekker
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it.
— Henry David Thoreau
and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
— Herman Melville
A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.
— Stephen Sondheim
life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
— Albert Camus