19th century Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

— Charles Palliser

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

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

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend…

— Paul Auster

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I…

— Min Jin Lee

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page…

— Ashwin Sanghi

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Fiona Barton

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you…

— Alissa Nutting

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a…

— Margaret Mitchell