Narrator Quotes

60 quotes by 58 authors

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was… — David Attenborough
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. — Anthony Bourdain
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to… — Amy Hempel
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable… — Baruch Spinoza
The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango is a travelogue.… — Jeff Mariotte
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a… — K. M. Soehnlein
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding… — Chris Van Allsburg
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be. — John McTiernan
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No… — Chuck Palahniuk
The â€˜Iâ€™ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the â€˜Iâ€™ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better. — Ethan Canin
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader… — Constance Hale
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that… — Eyvind Johnson
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. — Nancy Pearl
Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle… — Yiyun Li

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