Narrators Quote by S. E. Hinton Download Open image “I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.” — S. E. Hinton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Narrators Thinking Writing
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist. — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
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… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
