Able Quote by Akhil Sharma

Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy…

— T.C. Boyle

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

— James Lee Burke

Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is,…

— Neal Stephenson

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 can't totally…

— Rick Moody

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

— Charles Palliser

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new…

— Zoe Whittall

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a…

— Rachel Kushner

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend…

— Paul Auster

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

— Andrew Vachss

Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip hop, it…

— Raekwon

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust…

— Sarah Pinborough

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the…

— Truman Capote

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

— Umberto Eco

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock