Narrative Quotes

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit" "In a story, you only had to wish you were somewhere, and you were there" "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless" "History is written by the victors" "A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice all at once" "A world without stories would be a world without love" "The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it" "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter" "Every great love starts with a great story." "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"