Quotes About Narrators

#1. For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.

John Darnielle

#2. In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Simon Schama

#3. CUSTOMER: I'd like to buy this audiobook.
BOOKSELLER: Great.
CUSTOMER: Only, I don't really like this narrator.
BOOKSELLER: Oh.
CUSTOMER: Do you have a selection of narrators to choose from? Ideally, I'd like Benedict Cumberbatch

Jen Campbell

#4. I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

Tom Barbash

#5. My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Elinor Lipman

#6. Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The

Lisa Cron

#7. I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.

Susan Juby

#8. But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

#9. I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

Rick Moody

#10. 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

#11. I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

Anne Enright

#12. Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

Bruce Jackson

#13. In the end, the tenses of the verbs settled into a common groove, the persons of the narrators, first and third (the latter with so many variants and identities), became one, and events thronged toward a day that began uncertainly and remained undecided, with a light gray film covering the sky.

Filip Florian

#14. They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.

K.M. Golland

#15. I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

Lydia Davis

#16. Narrators can make or break your audiobook experience. Make sure your read first. always remember who's voice you can stand and try to stick to these people other wise your will end up hating the book. 50shades worst narrator ever. wined the whole book. enjoyed it much more in my head

Anonymous

#17. 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.

Pat Barker

#18. Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Thomas Keneally

#19. One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#20. I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.

Andrea Seigel

#21. Narrators may go where they please.

Catherynne M Valente

#22. The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.

Aminatta Forna

#23. 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.

Michael Robotham

#24. I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

Philip Pullman

#25. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice

#26. My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

Kristian Bush

#27. I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.

Asif Kapadia

#28. My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. (We are merely narrators, and would hate to make assumptions as to what the reader would find tragic.)

Cynthia Hand

#30. If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.

Margaret Atwood

#31. I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

Rob Roberge

#32. I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Molly Crabapple

#33. The story of my family ... changes with the teller.

Jennifer Haigh

#34. A miracle signifies nothing more than an event ... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or ... which the narrator is unable to explain.

Baruch Spinoza

#35. I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.

Arthur Bradford

#36. I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."

Bret Easton Ellis

#37. I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

Bret Easton Ellis

#38. It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#39. I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

Norman Lock

#40. I had done a deed - what was it?

Edgar Allan Poe

#41. I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

Steven Wright

#42. We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking.

Henry David Thoreau

#43. 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 M. Banks

#44. One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.

Ann Goldstein

#45. I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the narrator is me in an alternate universe.

Arthur Bradford

#46. As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

D.T. Max