I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter… — Bob Hartley 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
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
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
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
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman 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
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
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
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
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser 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 just respect audiences to understand that that's what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the… — Guy Maddin 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
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
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'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
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there… — Louise Erdrich 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
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
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
