Quotes about Narratives

that few things have more transformative power than people and stories. People

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories. Anthony laughed again. Surely

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Knowledge is power," Francis Bacon said in a peculiarly prophetic moment. He was right; "modern" scientific knowledge has demonstrated its power for three centuries. With postmodernism, however, the situation is reversed. There is no purely objective knowledge, no truth of correspondence. Instead there are only stories, stories that, when they are believed, give the storyteller power over others.