Angle Quote by Yiyun Li

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the…

— Constance Hale

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.

— Sally Rooney

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

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

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a…

— Gaspar Noe

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in…

— Rob Roberge

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first…

— Tony Grisoni

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

“When you choose a narrator emotionally involved in a drama, you might choose Brontë’s method; when you want distance, choose Grass’s cooler, more matter-of-fact…

— Anonymous

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo