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
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
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
Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec 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
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better. — Ethan Canin 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
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango… — Jeff Mariotte Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher 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 that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38d/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actors_there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-e_438126.jpg)
