Books Quote by Fiona Barton Download Open image “I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.” — Fiona Barton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books I love I think Love Novel Unreliable
I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emotions, responsibilities - and the pain - of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and she will… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people. — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I love the deadpan humour, the warmth, and… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a completely different… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances. — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image