Quotes About Narrator

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.

We have in this story, told by the Matthew narrator—which the writers of the other gospels seem to know nothing about,—almost a counterpart, if not an exact one, to that related of Crishna of India, which shows how closely the mythological history of Jesus has been copied from that of the Hindoo Saviour.

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one.

Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction.

In any reading experience there is an implied dialogue among author, narrator, the other characters, and the reader.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.

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 in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and disturbing read because it was the first time I really sensed that you could have an unreliable narrator, that you didn't have to sort of tell the truth in a narrative, that there could be something deeper and richer and more complicated going on.

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

Their three approaches fail but somehow the story itself succeeds, despite its narrator's and even author's failures!

How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.

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.

I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn't I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.