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
My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna 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
I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I am voice actor Roger Craig Smith. You may know me as Batman, Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio from Assassin's Creed,… — Roger Craig Smith 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
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
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
When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as… — Zoe Whittall 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
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
The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog… — Garth Stein 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
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg 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
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized… — Alfonso Cuaron 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
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
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
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
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
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
I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media… — Jeanette Winterson 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
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