Able Quote by Akhil Sharma

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally…

— Rick Moody

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

— James McBride

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a…

— Rachel Kushner

Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell…

— Andrea Brown

With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs…

— John Boyne

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must…

— Anonymous

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a challenge because…

— Jesmyn Ward

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something…

— Laurie Graham

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

— Donna Tartt

Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.

— Sally Rooney