Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
“How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
This is actually very specific, but I had 'Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat' as a VHS. Much loved... and I had a… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs.… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the… — Joanna Pearson 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
“You don’t have to do this, you know. Shut me out. I feel like I’ve only read one chapter of your story,… — Maxie Dara Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and… — Sarah Weinman 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
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
“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
“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly… — Adam A. Watt 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
“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
“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
“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
“When I got home, I seemed in a dream. My windows looked upon hers; I remained all the day looking at them,… — Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
“It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the paper on his desk and… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
