Books Quote by Charles Palliser

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know…

— Rob Roberge

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

— Fiona Barton

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust…

— Sarah Pinborough

I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.

— Ruth Ware

“Even the apparently unreliable narrator is more often than not reliably unreliable. Think of Kazuo Ishiguro’s butler in The Remains of the Day, or…

— James Wood

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules.…

— Jennifer Egan

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally…

— Rick Moody

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

— Daphne du Maurier

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

— Sarah Pinborough

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

— Paul Lieberstein

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King