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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

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

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

I'm not a great writer.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

You can never trust what you read.

The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.