Quotes about Narrative
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...
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Margaret Atwood
Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Margaret Atwood
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
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Anne Lamott
She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.
— Anne Lamott
Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread.
— Seth Godin
Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread. Marketing elects presidents, and marketing raises money for charity. Marketing also determines if the CEO stays or goes (Carly Fiorina learned this the hard way). Most of all, marketing influences markets.
— Seth Godin
Everyone has a problem, a desire, and a narrative. Who will you seek to serve?
— Seth Godin
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
— Edith Wharton