I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in…

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by…

— Regina Brett

I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those…

— Sherri Saum

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested…

— Giveon

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

— Ernest Hemingway

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

— Janet Evanovich

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to…

— John Scalzi

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener,…

— Michael Pollan

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

— Diane Wakoski

I find it hard to write in the first person.

— Michiko Kakutani

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

— William Zinsser

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

— Lana Del Rey

Write to one person, not a million.

— Fairfax M. Cone

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

— Margaret Atwood

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb