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Narrative Quotes

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting."
Henry James
"It is the tale, not he who tells it"
Stephen King
"Onward is not a memoir, but rather a candid and compelling narrative of his journey back to the company he helped build and guide to success"
Howard Schultz
"Stories are the way we learn about life; our actions steer the way we move forward"
Jacqueline Novogratz
"That's the way the whole story unfolds."
Sylvester Stallone
"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
Alan Watts
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I'm not interested in telling you what happened to me, I'm interested in telling you what happened to them."
Helen Mirren
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"
Stephen King
"Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell "
Walter Benjamin
"I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration is to me."
Nicole Kidman
"History is written by the victors"
Walter Benjamin
"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories"
Chinua Achebe
"Life is but a story, and we are the storytellers, each with our own part to play"
Ahmad Shamlou
"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
Haruki Murakami
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