Top 15 Omniscient Narrator Quotes
#1. (On George Eliot's narrative strategy)
It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.
Fredric Jameson
#2. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.
Shaun Tan
#3. I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
Molly Crabapple
#4. When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.
Paul Auster
#5. In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.
David Bailey
#6. I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.
Emir Kusturica
#7. She's like a kindness ninja. Sneaking around in order to help people.
A.S. King
#8. He who, being a man, remains a woman, becomes a universal channel. Eternal virtue will flow through him. He will become a child again.
Lao-Tzu
#9. The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Andrew Vachss
#10. A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.
Martin Luther
#11. There was something about that
word - we - that comforted me. There was no longer him. There was no
longer me. There was us.
Anna Carey
#12. Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message.
Debasish Mridha
#13. This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .
Tamar Jacoby
