Crafts Quote by William Kennedy

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the…

— Truman Capote

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to…

— Will Hobbs

Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy…

— T.C. Boyle

Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new…

— Zoe Whittall

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…

— Rachel Kushner

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

— James Lee Burke

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the…

— Akhil Sharma

Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is,…

— Neal Stephenson

One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.

— Ann Goldstein

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

— Molly Crabapple

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

— Charlotte Bronte

Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip hop, it…

— Raekwon

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust…

— Sarah Pinborough

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

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock