#narrator

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#life

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

— Arthur Herzog

#character #chooses #enter #head #knows

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

— S. E. Hinton

#being #go #him #i #narrator

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. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#character #complex #complex character #i #interesting

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. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#clear #first-person #hitchcock #like #literature

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. ↗

— Al Pacino

#coppola #cut #days #did #directions

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

— Andrew Vachss

#constantly #instead #like #narrator #omniscient

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

— Willie Stargell

#baseball #eastman #first #job #narrator

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. ↗

— Rick Moody

#because #before #big #big deal #character

A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR I am hunted by humans. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#humans #liesl #narrator #sad #stupid