Narrative Quotes

"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories" "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." "People are looking for stories in everything." "I'm a storyteller. That's all I've ever tried to be." "You write your own narrative" "They [comic books] are not a genre… they are a source of great stories and colorful characters" "I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." "Fiction is the truth inside the lie" "A short story is a different thing altogether" "To live in a world without stories would be unbearable" "Crafting a compelling narrative is about subverting expectations." "Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale." "Fiction is a lie that tells us true things." "It is the tale, not he who tells it" "The storyteller's task is to name what is lost"