It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better. — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist. — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity. — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Stories are told at festive, joyful gatherings, but the ones narrated at funerals are special because they reaffirm existence, of the listeners… — Janice Pariat Copy Share Image
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango… — Jeff Mariotte Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
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