Quotes About Narration

The teller of the tale is nothing compared to the tale itself.

material both narrated and displayed with text on the screen, and the second presentation included the narration with the text on the screen removed. Audiences who experienced the second presentation retained 28 percent more information and could apply 79 percent more creative solutions using the information than those who experienced the first presentation.

La première qualité d'un écrivain était de savoir captiver son lecteur par une bonne histoire. Un récit capable de l'arracher à son existence pour le projeter au coeur de l'intimité et de la vérité des personnages.Le style n'était que le moyen d'innerver la narration et de la rendre vibrante.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

I'm always pretending that I'm sitting across from somebody. I'm telling them a story and I don't want them to get up until it's finished

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

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.

Los hombres siempre han disfrutado de una ventaja, y ésta es la de ser los narradores de su propia historia. Han contado con todos los privilegios de la educación, y, además, han tenido la pluma en mis manos.

I would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

I believe all audio books should be read and recorded by people from Iceland, because they've got the best accent.

I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.

I keep an open mind when a script is narrated to me.

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.

I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry James or Thomas Mann could easily write it, but not I. 'I'm thinking of writing it from the point of view of someone at the hotel who observes her,' I said, but this did not fill me with much hope. Then my friend, who is not a writer, suggested I try it from the omniscient author's point of view.

Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. "Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

Later, dictating the tale into his comlog, the Consul remembered it as a seamless whole, minus the pauses, hoarse voice, false starts, and small redundancies which were the timeless failings of human speech

Brother turned the page and read aloud again without once glancing down at the text.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond and, instead of that, I have been telling the story of my own self.

Scripture does not explain things by their secondary causes, but only narrates them in the order and style which has most power to move men... It's object is not to convince the reason, but to attract and last hold of the imagination. (p.162/543)