Internal Narrative Quotes

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

People are the story they tell themselves.

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

I drag my myth around with me.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

There must be a story within him/her that wants to come out. That's the reason why 'Dil Chahta Hai,' 'Lagaan,' and 'Rang De Basanti' worked so well: Ashutosh, Farhan, and Rakesh had a story inside them. It's very important that the director should have the fire in the belly to tell the story.