A Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian - Novelist
Born: March 28, 1936

Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.

Kazuo Ishiguro

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

Dalai Lama

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

Warren Buffett

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

Lev Grossman

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

Rob Roberge

Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

Yiyun Li

It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown.

Margaret George

Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.

Leni Zumas

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

William Carlos Williams

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

It's almost impossible to have security at the expense of insecurity of others. It's almost impossible to have prosperity when there is a huge problem of poverty and backwardness all over the world.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

Fiona Barton

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

Charles Palliser

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

Charles Palliser

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

Colson Whitehead

Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is exactly when it's almost impossible for a CEO to quit.

Glenn Kelman

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