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.
Eyvind Johnson
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
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
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
John McTiernan
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Willie Stargell
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
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Andrew Vachss
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
Arthur Herzog
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
James Lee Burke
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