Narratives Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”

Julian Barnes

2. “Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”

Margaret Atwood

3. “History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others.”

Yuval Noah Harari

4. “The first thing you need to know about yourself is that you are not a story.”

Yuval Noah Harari

5. “I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.”

Yuval Noah Harari

6. “I encourage all of us, whatever our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments with present concerns, and not to be afraid of controversial issues.”

Yuval Noah Harari

7. “Stories are like spiders, with all their long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”

Neil Gaiman

8. “I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

Neil Gaiman

9. “I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.”

Sheryl Sandberg

10. “Even people who have endured the worst suffering often want to talk about it.”

Sheryl Sandberg

11. “When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

Brene Brown

12. “Every financial decision a person makes makes sense to them at that moment and checks the boxes they need to check. They tell themselves a story about what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”

Morgan Housel

13. “Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

Carl Jung

14. “And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen.”

John Steinbeck

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