I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs.…

— Ella Henderson

“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first time I…

— Dexter Palmer

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock

“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,”

— Ben Lerner

“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken…

— Karen Russell

“The narrator, in a voice-of-God tenor, explains the experiment.”

— Eric Weiner

“And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over…

— Joanna Pearson

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…

— Chris Bohjalian

'Yeh Hai Aashiqui - Siyappa Ishq Ka' has become a part of who I am. I will be narrating the stories, and as a…

— Rithvik Dhanjani

“Memory is a traitor, and a liar, and a good-for-nothing thief.”

— Jay Kristoff

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point…

— W. G. Sebald

“Hats off to Tavia Gilbert who made Bones alive for me. What a great writer and narrator team. You make listening fun!” (Audible.com reader…

— Tavia Gilbert

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story…

— John Green

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

— Fiona Barton