I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical. — Thalia Zedek Copy Share Image
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Writing is too silly for me. There are no rules. One person tears apart everything you write while another person praises it… — Rahul Kanakia Copy Share Image
Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“How should I write this? In third person so it becomes just a story? In second so that you can pretend you… — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
