I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or… which the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed,… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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