I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well. — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough 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
“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I like to consider myself a narrator of sorts for my friends and I feel like songs are a perfect way to… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,” — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites… — Sheila Heti 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
“The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood 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
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
“And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Oh, I almost forgot. In case that anyone besides big-headed Near or the deluded murderer is reading these notes, then I shall… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
“What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace;… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses. — Arthur Herzog Copy Share Image
