Narrator Quotes

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.