I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it…

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

I think that everyone wants sexy hair, and when they think of sexy hair they think of volume - they don't think about flat,…

— Chrissy Teigen

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

— Wally Lamb

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 want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

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 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