personal narrative quotes

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who’s a dear friend of mine.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.