Narrative Quotes

“The story is not over until it has taken the worst possible turn.”

“I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

“If we don't have a story, we have nothing.”

“What is painting? At first, it was the art of telling stories in a pleasant way.”

“It is the story that lies in the vacant item.”

“The function of music in a film is to either underline or foreshadow.”

“Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one.”

“Oh, a pitiful story! the Stranger said, And a pitiful story it seems to be.”

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”

“My operas are about a kind of landscape of characters and events. They’re not about a particular story, like a story that you would tell your friend.”

“Every story is a mystery. If it's not, then what's the point?”

“You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.”

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account...”

“I'm interested in the language of the body as a way of creating a narrative.”

“You can't show a beetle crossing the street and call it a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The end must be a resolution, not just a stop.”

“The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.”

“It is a strange story.”

“The problem is to make the story seem not only interesting but important.”

“There is no substitute for a good story.”

“To be a Christian is to live in a certain kind of story.”