Narration Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress… — H P Lovecraft
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. — Jacques Lacan
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's… — Steve Sabol
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics… — Marjane Satrapi
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's… — George Carlin
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. — Albert Murray
Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I… — Bob Shacochis
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration… — John Updike
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like… — Robert Morgan

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