Books Quote by Fiona Barton

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

— Norman Lock

'Pi' was one of my favorite films growing up because I thought it employed paranoia and voice-over, and also because it used this unreliable…

— Sam Esmail

“I want to write an unreliable narrator. In fact, he’ll be so unreliable that I’m not even sure he’ll show up to narrate.”

— Jarod Kintz

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 would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.

— Jessica Rothe

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

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

— Charles Palliser

“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

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews…

— Roger Ebert

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar