Quotes about Narrative

The parts of fiction are the various steps that the author takes to develop his plot—the details of characterization and incident.

Unless you read it quickly you will fail to see the unity of the story. Unless you read intensely you will fail to see the details.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the reality of South Africa was the arrests and detentions and oppression - we could not escape that, so we decided to take it on.

Difficult to "move on" from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.

there was no bad luck in the world but whitepeople. 'They don't know when to stop,' she said, and returned to her bed, pulled up the quilt and left them to hold that thought forever.

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.