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Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Narrative Writing quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
This is what is behind the special relationship between tale and travel, and, perhaps, the reason why narrative writing is so closely bound up with walking. To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain that the author as guide - a guide one may not always agree with our trust, but who can at least be counted upon to take one somewhere. I have have often wished that my sentences could be written out as a single line running into distances so that it would be clear that a sentence is likewise a road and reading is traveling. ~ Rebecca Solnit
Narrative Writing quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe:
1. Write a simple narrative.
2. Make a long list.
3. Scatter the contents of your list throughout your narrative. ~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Narrative Writing quotes by Jaclyn Moriarty
And yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on and planned out, not even the will of a god seems forceful enough to manage it, if our own will is made in its semblance. It may be, rather, that nothing is ever unmixed and the thirst for totality is never quenched, perhaps because it is a false yearning. Nothing is whole or of a single piece, everything is fractured and evenomed, veins of peace run through the body of war and hatred insinuates itself into love and compassion, there is truce amid the quagmire of bullets and a bullet amid the revelries, nothing can bear to be unique or prevail or be dominant and everything needs fissures and cracks, needs it negation at the same time as its existence. And nothing is known with certainty and everything is told figuratively. ~ Javier Marias
Narrative Writing quotes by Javier Marias
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.' ~ Charlie Pierce
Narrative Writing quotes by Charlie Pierce
Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label
to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be. ~ John Irving
Narrative Writing quotes by John Irving
Lan, through her stories, was also traveling in a spiral. As I listened, there would be moments when the story would change-- not much, just a minuscule detail, the time of day, the color of someone's shirt, two air raids instead of three, an AK-47 instead of a 9mm, the daughter laughing, not crying. Shifts in narrative would occur-- the past never a fixed and dormant landscape but one that is re-seen. Whether we want to or not, we are traveling in a spiral, we are creating something new from what is gone. ~ Ocean Vuong
Narrative Writing quotes by Ocean Vuong
Our children are an integral component of our stories as we are of theirs and, therefore, each child acts as the knighted messengers to carry their forebears' stories into the future. To deprive our children of the narrative cells regarding the formation of the ozone layer that rims the atmosphere of our ancestors' saga and parental determination of selfhood is to deny them of the sacred right to claim the sanctity of their heritage. Accordingly, all wrinkled brow natives are chargeable with the sacrosanct obligation of telling their kith and kin the memorable story of the scenic days they spent as children of nature splashing about in their naked innocence in the brook of infinite time and space. We must scrupulous document our family's history as well as scrawl out our personal story. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Narrative Writing quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't do it would ever believe. ~ Joan Didion
Narrative Writing quotes by Joan Didion
Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a person's constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance of selfless deeds, and in doing so enhances the ability of the equitable eye of humanity to scroll rearward and forward. Every person must become familiar with our communal history of struggle, loss, redemption, and meaningfully contemplate the meaning behind our personal existence in order to draft a proper and prosperous future for succeeding generations. Accordingly, every person is responsible for sharing their story using the language of thought that best expresses their sanguine reminiscences. Without a record of pastimes, we will never know what were, what we now are, or what we might become by steadfastly and honorably struggling with mortal chores. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Narrative Writing quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed. ~ T.J. Clark
Narrative Writing quotes by T.J. Clark
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library ~ Phillip Lopate
Narrative Writing quotes by Phillip Lopate
Say what you will about it, Hell is story friendly. If you want a compelling story, put your protagonist among the damned. The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over. ~ Charles Baxter
Narrative Writing quotes by Charles Baxter
That IS what journal writing is all about - showing ourselves to God. ~ Frank McCourt
Narrative Writing quotes by Frank McCourt
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade. ~ James A. Michener
Narrative Writing quotes by James A. Michener
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. ~ Tom Lehrer
Narrative Writing quotes by Tom Lehrer
The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. ~ Ray Bradbury
Narrative Writing quotes by Ray Bradbury
I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble. ~ Don Mattingly
Narrative Writing quotes by Don Mattingly
Sometimes you control your demons and sometimes it controls you. ~ J. Limbu
Narrative Writing quotes by J. Limbu
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say. ~ Maeve Binchy
Narrative Writing quotes by Maeve Binchy
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. ~ Walter Pater
Narrative Writing quotes by Walter Pater
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. ~ Stephen Jay Gould
Narrative Writing quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
A story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene ... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much. ~ Ryukishi07
Narrative Writing quotes by Ryukishi07
When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside. ~ Elif Batuman
Narrative Writing quotes by Elif Batuman
Writing a memoir is a holistic method of learning and healing by placing responsibility for personal transformation on the spiritual authority of the self. Writing a person's life story is useful to gain a comprehensive understanding regarding a person's maturation, distinctive stages of personal development, and the influences provided by their family and society. The writing processes also serves as a catharsis for painful personal events that a person seeks to integrate into their transmuting being. Writing our personal story, we discover new dimensions of our being. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Narrative Writing quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reality. From the time we begin to understand language until our death, we are perpetually surrounded by narratives, first of all in our family, then at school, then through our encounters with people and reading.
- The Novel as Research. (1968) ~ Michel Butor
Narrative Writing quotes by Michel Butor
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction. ~ Robbie Robertson
Narrative Writing quotes by Robbie Robertson
(Novelists, when their characters drive cars, never feel compelled to describe precisely what the physical actions are of hands, feet, eyes, knees, elbows. Yet many of these same novelists, when their characters copulate, get into such detailed physical description you'd think they were writing an exercise book. We all know the interrelation between the right ankle and the accelerator when driving a car, and we needn't be told. ~ Donald E. Westlake
Narrative Writing quotes by Donald E. Westlake
The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun in any sentence that was not holding hands with the nearest and most commonly available adjective - scalding coffee and tremulous fear are the sorts of thing you will find throughout. Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing. ~ Norman Mailer
Narrative Writing quotes by Norman Mailer
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels. ~ Neil Simon
Narrative Writing quotes by Neil Simon
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. ~ Lee Daniels
Narrative Writing quotes by Lee Daniels
Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind ~ Munia Khan
Narrative Writing quotes by Munia Khan
Well, you know, when you're putting together a show, you've got to be careful not to load it up with the new stuff. We have to play the songs that people want to hear, too. People may come thinking, "Oh, I've just got to hear this song." Or maybe they'll write me a letter saying a certain song is really meaningful to them, so we'll be sure to play those songs. ~ Margo Timmins
Narrative Writing quotes by Margo Timmins
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. ~ Alan Perlis
Narrative Writing quotes by Alan Perlis
You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative. ~ Wes Craven
Narrative Writing quotes by Wes Craven
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. ~ Michael Arrington
Narrative Writing quotes by Michael Arrington
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.' ~ Tiger Woods
Narrative Writing quotes by Tiger Woods
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live. ~ Stanley Hauerwas
Narrative Writing quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
There's really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor
Narrative Writing quotes by Rob Bignell, Editor
She [Mrs. Badger] was surrounded in the drawing-room by various objects, indicative of her painting a little, playing the piano a little, playing the guitar a little, playing the harp a little, singing a little, working a little, reading a little, writing poetry a little, and botanizing a little. She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it. ~ Charles Dickens
Narrative Writing quotes by Charles Dickens
I write out of revenge. ~ William Goldman
Narrative Writing quotes by William Goldman
I play piano and write better than I can sing. ~ Irene Cara
Narrative Writing quotes by Irene Cara
What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape. ~ Fennel Hudson
Narrative Writing quotes by Fennel Hudson
[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is not shared by others, but until their individual responses lose their idiosyncratic nature by being adopted by a larger interpretive community, such responses will be regarded as being to a greater or lesser degree aberrant, and the offender will be regarded as lacking in good taste or good sense or both. ~ Patrick O'Neill
Narrative Writing quotes by Patrick O'Neill
In appearance, this locus is a simple one; a matter of pure reciprocity: we read a text in which the writer is in turn reading to us. But it isn't a text, it's a mirrror. It offers us at last that enchantment of the double. ~ Santiago García
Narrative Writing quotes by Santiago García
Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often. ~ Peter Vidmar
Narrative Writing quotes by Peter Vidmar
I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are? ~ Dave Barry
Narrative Writing quotes by Dave Barry
I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words. ~ Terry Jones
Narrative Writing quotes by Terry Jones
The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment. ~ Gina Greenlee
Narrative Writing quotes by Gina Greenlee
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it ... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way. ~ Paul Reiser
Narrative Writing quotes by Paul Reiser
Our lives are stories built of small moments. Ordinary experiences. It is too easy to forget that our days are adding up to something astonishing. We do not often stop to notice the signs and wonders. The writing on the wall. ~ Christie Purifoy
Narrative Writing quotes by Christie Purifoy
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy. ~ Frank Loesser
Narrative Writing quotes by Frank Loesser
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. ~ Gerald Stanley Lee
Narrative Writing quotes by Gerald Stanley Lee
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