narrative quotes

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

- Paul pseudonym of  Paul Benjamin Auster
  In the Sunday Times,16  Apr.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

- Robert Lowell Coover
  In Time Out,7 May.

   There is no longer any such thing as fiction or non- fiction; there's only narrative.

- E(dgar) L(awrence) Doctorow
 In the NewYork Times Book Review, 27  Jan.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn,'Notice'.