Quotes about Narrative

He heard something? That's the best the writer can do? That's so vague. Ambiguous. Fuzzy. Exactly. Sometimes the most powerful truths in a story are the ones that are never explicitly stated.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

When you begin to question the narrative of yourself and inquire as to who is even doing all of this talking inside your own head, you may come to realize that you have no idea!

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. The ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints. In nature, this self-registration is incessant, and the narrative is the print of the seal.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.