267 Quotes About Narrative

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

We are all footnotes, many of us will never have the chance to be read, all of us in an unrelenting and desperate struggle for our lives, for the life of a footnote, to remain on the surface before, in spite of our efforts, we are submerged. Everywhere we leave constant traces of our existence, of our struggle against vacuity. And the greater the vacuity, the more violent our struggle.

What use is the truth in a world where we die either way? Isn't it better to live happy until that last moment, believing the story you are living, shoulder to shoulder with others who believe and live that same story? Why flounder in the void when there is no need to do so? The story ends the same way, no matter how you chose to perceive it. Why not choose to perceive it as meaningful?

One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

Mrs. Dadds, who was telling a story about her chilblains, brought her narrative to a more or less satisfactory conclusion and paused to regain her breath.

Siegel, who codirects UCLA’s Mindsight Institute and is author of the scientifically acclaimed books "The Developing Mind: and "The Mindful Brain," broke down the essential sequence of surprise as expectation + violation of expectation. He quoted Jerome Bruner, one of the fathers of cognitive psychology, who said “narrative emerges from violations to expectations.