Growing up Quote by Sam Esmail

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

— Norman Lock

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 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 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 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

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian

“And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over…

— Joanna Pearson

“The narrator, in a voice-of-God tenor, explains the experiment.”

— Eric Weiner

“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken…

— Karen Russell