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«Non è una frase genuina» protestai. «I mi spiace autentici sono di un rosa più tenue».Arricciò le labbra. «Ma sono anche troppo fragili». Stando a quanto avevo letto, era vero. La rarità era dovuta anche...

—Roberto Bommarito

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Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don’t yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.”[Ten rules for writing fiction (The...

—Helen Dunmore

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… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I saw it, my readers. More exactly they were...

—Marcel Proust

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If you want to understand someone, figure out the narrative they tell themselves about themself. If you want to change your behavior, change your narrative. If you want to change someone else’s behavior, offer them...

—Shane Parrish

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There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

—Ciaran Carson

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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...

—Michel Butor

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I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

—Carmen Laforet

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The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops...

—Jeanette Winterson

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«Non tutte le parole sono precipitate al suolo» disse Lucio, trovando infine il coraggio di guardarmi negli occhi.Mi sforzai di dire qualcosa. «No?»«No» continuò, il volto ammorbidito. Era sollevato che avessi deciso di aprire bocca....

—Roberto Bommarito

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Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) ‘There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever...

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

—Oliver Sacks

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We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others...

—Elyse M.

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The most powerful words in English are, “Tell me a story.

—Pat Conroy

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Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments – its power is not in narrative. I’m not dealing with facts, I’m dealing with emotion.

—Carol Ann

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The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be human. We use stories to order and make sense of our...

—John Capecci

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If we possess narrative sympathy – enabling us to see the world from other’s point of view – we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

—Richard Kearney

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There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the...

—Douglas Adams

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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

—N.D. Wilson

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Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

—Ann Leckie

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Stories matter.

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

—Nicholas Dawidoff

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If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.

—Eberhard Jüngel

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People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

—Jonah Berger

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The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even...

—Sara Sheridan

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The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences...

—Gilles Deleuze

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The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs below 20 and the extremest motor incompetence and...

—Oliver Sacks

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I hear music as narrative.

—Ajay Naidu

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Yeah, episodic doesn’t work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it’s just narrative shit.

—Don Roff

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No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

—Roger Zelazny

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A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

—Isaac Babel

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Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad.

—Jincy Willett

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Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.

—Refaat Alareer

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It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t...

—Don DeLillo

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During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical accounts are not direct representations of actual events; they are, instead,...

—Miranda Wilcox

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