Quotes about Narrative

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

All of Madeleine's writing, fiction and nonfiction, was an example of how all narrative is fiction, and all fiction can be true.

When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

ALLEGER  (ALLE'GER)   n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.