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Quotes About Narrator

We know very little about the effect of electricity on sharks," the narrator will say, in a deeply scientific voice. "That is why Todd is going to jab this Great While in the testicles with a cattle prod.
~ Dave Barry
You're always acting like you're the heroine of one of your own novels. You just fall into the arms of the next man the narrator puts in front of you." "You told me that too!" "Did I?" said Gillian. "That was impolite of me." "I always thought so," said Frances. "I could have been kinder," said Gillian. "I may have been on the spectrum.
~ Liane Moriarty
Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.
~ Iain Banks
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
~ Pat Conroy
We're all tricksters. Each and every one of us. No one is a totally reliable narrator. Life is all Story. Every bit of it. We see things through the filter of our own unique worldviews, through our own longings and fears and loves, through our own traumas. Not one single person on this earth is able to
~ Unknown
This "I" was the voice of no author in my house. This "I" was someone who not only knew why Charlotte went to the airport but also knew someone called "Victor." Who was Victor? Who was this narrator? Why was this narrator telling me this story? Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
~ Joan Didion
The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.
~ Vivian Gornick
it is the narrator who is the "agent": he himself is the unifying idea. Not through what he tells us about himself or even through what he sees as he travels, but through the way he sees what he sees. It is the character of the persona's perspective that provides the narrative its striking inner life.
~ Vivian Gornick
The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.
~ Vivian Gornick
Writing in a journal activates the narrator function of our minds. Studies have suggested that simply writing down our account of a challenging experience can lower physiological reactivity and increase our sense of well-being, even if we never show what we've written to anyone else.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Il appartient à la structure du langage d'être son propre tiers. L'écrivain comme le penseur savent qui est en eux le vrai narrateur : la formulation. Voilà ce que je fais : le travail du langage pesant, pensant, penchant, dépensant lui-même.
~ Unknown
Un drama convincente deja claro a los oyentes que el narrador tiene corazón.
~ Peter Guber
Jesus said, "Whatever you [all] ask in my name, I'll do it for you" (John 14:13). In my name--and who is He? He's the Plot--the Word of the Author, who is the narrator.
~ Unknown