Narrative Quotes

"Experience has taught me that the features of a man's face are a narrative which is revealed as attentively as a fragment of a written text " "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." "We're all stories, in the end." "This is a work of fiction, but believe me, none of this is invented." "The role of the storyteller is to regenerate the past so that it might deliver its message for the present moment" "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "You should never trust a storyteller; only trust the story" "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting." "Be sure not to discuss your hero's weaknesses anymore than you discuss God’s." "We're talking about fictional characters, imaginary people, but the important thing is that it is real for us" "Stories are the way we learn about life; our actions steer the way we move forward" "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." "All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town." "One of the exciting things about being an artist is that you’re able to invent new ways to tell stories that haven’t been told in that way before" "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."