Classic Quote by Rob Roberge

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

We are unreliable narrators - all of us.

— Ruth Ware

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

— Charles Palliser

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

— Ruth Ware

“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 have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

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

— Anthony Bourdain

In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the ways that…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Norman Lock