Narrator Quotes

60 Narrator quotes by 58 unique authors

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice… — Alfonso Cuaron
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone,… — Anne Enright
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 take… — Rachel Kushner
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known,… — Caroline Knapp
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader… — Sara Zarr
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying… — Ryan Adams
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.… — Al Pacino
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. — Manuel Puig
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,… — Philip Pullman
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa
***A Last note from your narrator*** I am haunted by humans. — Markus Zusak
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte
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
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and… — Anna Godbersen
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of… — Richard Powers
September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator.… — Catherynne M. Valente
The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this… — Richard Siken
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with… — Megan Hart
Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do an extra side… — Sara Shepard
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman

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