Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective."
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Narrators
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Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"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."
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator."
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations."
James Lee Burke
Author
"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
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"The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular."
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"Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story."
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"It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator."
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"If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing."
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"I used to be a narrator for bad mimes."
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