Quotes about Narrative
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
I took my Canadian perspective over to Ireland and dug around, and I found a very interesting story and brought it back.
— Kari Skogland
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
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
— Andy Andrews
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.
— Aristotle
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.
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Margaret Atwood
People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.
— Margaret Atwood