Quotes About First Person Narration

#1. Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word.

David Lodge

#2. The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Homer

#3. And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.

Jennifer Niven

#4. Simplicity is the beauty of all creation.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem, and now am neither,

A.S. Byatt

#6. I want it all ... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together ... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

Fred Armisen

#7. 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

#8. With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Charles Churchill

#9. If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

David Bowie

#11. All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

Raina Telgemeier

#12. I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Liya Kebede

#13. I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.

Terrell Owens

#14. Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so used to the subtleties of beige and Brown, and then a sunshine-yellow poppy bursts from the arm of a prickly pear.

Aimee Bender

#15. I was born Stranger
I will die Stranger
Unknown is my name
Unknown is my country.

Santosh Kalwar