Multiple Narratives Quotes

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story.

Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.

It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

There's so many different medias on the internet, taking it from the big medias and making their own little article out of that and changing it into something that it isn't. There's never one story from an interview, there's always so many different stories.

Painting with broad strokes, I feel like a lot of journalism makes it out to be like the collective consciousness has a finite imagination for multiple women at one time in a similar genre.

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.