Quotes About Unreliable Narrators

#1. One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#3. I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

Rob Roberge

#4. Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

Deanna Raybourn

#5. You're not for me."
"No?"
"Sadly not." He shook his head.
"Damn."
"Yeah, I know. You're really missing out." He sighed.

Kylie Scott

#6. Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The

Lisa Cron

#7. I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.

Susan Juby

#8. Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
The crushing agony, and hold us still.
And nowhere is that clearer vision given
Which pierces a bewildering providence,
And opens windows upon highest heaven,
But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.

Amy Carmichael

#9. I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

Joe Lhota

#10. Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Eleanora Duse

#11. If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

William Rehnquist

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

Norman Lock

#13. The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

Anais Nin

#14. I had done a deed - what was it?

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. I'm for traditional marriage, mostly because I want to know how many goats I'm worth.

Sabrina Zbasnik

#17. Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.

Iain M. Banks

#18. The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Jim Butcher

#19. Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

Delia Ephron

#20. I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

Cybill Shepherd

#21. For every choice there is a tragedy

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