We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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