Narrative Objectivity Quotes

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.