As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator…

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the…

— Anne Enright

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not…

— Simon Schama

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean…

— Billy Collins

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 even believe…

— Will Schwalbe

The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of…

— Janet Malcolm

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the…

— Truman Capote

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

— Umberto Eco

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my…

— Zachary Lazar

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;…

— Charles Stross

Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century…

— Richard Powers