Unreliable Narrative Quotes

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Saying one is adopting one's policies to changing circumstances is a nice way of saying "I lied.

The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.

Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

Our credibility had gotten so bad we couldn't even believe our own leaks.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.