I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis 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
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson 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
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood 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
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
One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey… — Anne Enright 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
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
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who… — Rachel Kushner 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
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
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother,… — David Henry Hwang 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
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
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
![“And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that…” quote by Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a50/chuck-palahniuk-37_books_and-it-fight-club-novel-was-written-so-g_793249.jpg)
