Quotes about Narrative
It's time to begin righting the story of your life.
— David Jeremiah
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
— Anonymous
Their words seemed to them as idle tales.
— Anonymous
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
— Anonymous
While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.
— Frank Herbert
Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.
— Frank Herbert
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All of Madeleine's writing, fiction and nonfiction, was an example of how all narrative is fiction, and all fiction can be true.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
What surrounded me did not count. All that counted was made of words.
— Amos Oz
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.
— Samuel Johnson