I almost always urge people to write in the first person…

A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two…

— William Zinsser

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming…

— Tony Kushner

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”

— William Zinsser

Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of…

— William Zinsser

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

— Eli Broad

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

— Wally Lamb

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

— Emily Giffin

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

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says…

— William Zinsser

...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego…

— Chogyam Trungpa

You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the…

— Eli Siegel

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

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing…

— John Krasinski