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 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
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
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
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy 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
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
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm 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
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
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
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers 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
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein 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
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia 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
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
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
