Narrators Quotes

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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
Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then… — David Henry Hwang
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character… — Ann Beattie
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. — S E Hinton
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.… — Garth Stein
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss
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
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly,… — 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

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