Quotes about Narrative

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.

People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

Life Stories: Why hunger for these? One, it fits a hunger. Maybe it is more like bossiness. Maybe we just want to be in charge of the life, no matter who lived it...

It's somewhat daunting to reflect that Hell is -- possibly -- the place where you are stuck in your own personal narrative for ever, and Heaven is -- possibly -- the place where you can ditch it, and take up wisdom instead.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Storytelling is not a luxury to humanity; it's almost as necessary as bread. We cannot imagine ourselves without it, because the self is a story.

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.