Books Quote by Sarah Pinborough

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky…

— Peter Orner

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

— Ruth Ware

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”

— Anthony Marais

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the…

— Sarah Pinborough

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes

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 do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“A writer of stories is a liar.”

— John Steinbeck

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it…

— Anonymous

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin