Quotes About Narratology

#1. The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

Ellen Willis

#2. Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

E. M. Forster

#3. ... 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 readers of themselves, my book being a sort of magnifying glass ... by which I could give them the means to read within themselves.

Marcel Proust

#4. The alchemical steps to attract success are always the same, although manifested differently in each person.

Daniel Marques

#5. But it's easier to say 'I love you',
than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

Elvis Costello

#6. Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?

Michael Jackson

#7. People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Simon Spurr

#8. Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).

Mikkel Wallentin

#9. Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Willie Van Peer

#10. Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

Mason Cooley

#11. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Anger as well as love casts out fear ...

Margaret Deland

#13. 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

#14. We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.

Eric Karpeles

#15. But for your eyes. Green as spring grass, and sparkling like dew in the morning sun.

S.M. Carriere

#16. Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Paulo Freire

#17. Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to.

Joseph Campbell

#18. Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions ... Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

Randy Ingermanson

#19. Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.

Solomon Northup

#20. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

William Kristol