Definition of Narrative

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Narrative

Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.

That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.

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Narrative Quotations

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
George Armstrong Custer

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
Howard Gardner

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
Bruce Springsteen

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Lord Chesterfield

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
Sidney Sheldon

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
Brian Eno

Narrative Translations

narrative in Afrikaans is storie, verhaal
narrative in Dutch is vertelsel, verhaal, relaas, vertelling
narrative in Portuguese is narrativa
narrative in Spanish is narrativa

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