Unreliable Narrators Quotes

“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, Transition

“I had done a deed—what was it?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination

“We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care. My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“People always talk about unreli­able narrators and, to tell you the truth, I think that’s a redundant term. I think ‘narrator’ inheres unreliability, because even if we don’t mean to lie, we’re still selecting this event instead of that event to talk about, and that’s a form of omission. Anyone who narrates a story, or narrates anything, is always giving you their version, and their version always has a slant to it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones

“Christine gave Louise a knowing look, but Louise did not know what the knowing in the look was meant to mean.”
― Janet Olearski, The Book of Reasonable Women

“If you're not sharp and you're not listening, I'll most likely carry you somewhere you didn't want to go.”
― Marlon James