Quotes by Narrators I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'. Alfonso Cuaron narrators voice historical 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 narrators powerful important The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. Andrew Vachss narrators tape running 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 narrators female gone 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 narrators sound thinking First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Anne Rice narrators writing book I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. Anthony Bourdain narrators unbiased objectives I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity. Arthur Bradford narrators unity littles 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 narrators titles dog 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 narrators causes miracle I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read. Boyd Holbrook narrators squad style 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 narrators fiction thinking 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 narrators smart believe By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. Caroline Knapp narrators self order September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark. Catherynne M. Valente narrators light dark I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable. Charles Palliser narrators firsts thinking I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene. Charles Stross narrators style thinking The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. Charlotte Bronte narrators listeners tongue Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. Chuck Palahniuk narrators giving life I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films. Colin Farrell narrators voice drama 123»