Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
I'm never a reliable narrator unbiased or objective.
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
The third person narrator instead of being omniscient is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
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.
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 isn't the woman.
When I was writing 'You Suck ' in 2006 I constructed the diction of the book's narrator perky Goth girl Abby Normal from what I read on Goth blog sites.
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 on everything they observe.
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable and that though it is clearly an absolute fiction it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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 sympathies get really interesting.
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.
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. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood people would think I was a liar.
Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.
I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
***A Last note from your narrator*** I am haunted by humans.
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
In a thriller the camera's an active narrator or can be.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
As a writer I'm not an explainer really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout so that there's a little unity.
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie the narrator is terrific & the last line blew me away.
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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.
I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.
I think first-person narrators should be complex because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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 condition of desiring.
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient omnipotent narrator and the great confidence of the narrator which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.
If you have a single narrator a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong original debut.
When the narrator feels like an octopus when he says his limbs are starting to multiply he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous all-seeing narrator.
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.
I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the narrator is me in an alternate universe.
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 yet the narrator went on describing her desire.
In writing the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices a narrator can reach out to the reader and say 'Weâ??re in this together.'
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research however patient and scrupulous into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.