Quotes of: Narration Keyword

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Collected Fictions

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man?

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Griffin Dunne

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Pat Conroy

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

Philipp Meyer

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

Rachel Kushner

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Albert Murray

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

Henry Giroux

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

Jason Silva

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

Charles Palliser

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

Chris Bohjalian

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Getting ready to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep-sea diving.

A Christmas Story

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] I left Flick to certain annihilation. But BB gun mania knows no loyalty.

A Christmas Story

Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just... Marla Singer:

Fight Club

Narrator: [reading] I am Jack's colon. Tyler Durden: I get cancer, I kill Jack.

Fight Club

Narrator: Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't.

Fight Club

Tyler Durden: Where'd you go, psycho boy? Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.

Fight Club

[meeting aboard an airliner] Narrator: What do you do for a living? Tyler Durden: Why? So you can pretend like you're interested?

Fight Club