First person Quote by James Lee Burke

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to…

— Laurie Graham

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress…

— Norman Lock

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 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

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

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm…

— Sheila Heti

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

I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar…

— Kate Christensen

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

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

— William Kennedy

When you're writing in first person you have to be honest about how people think.

— Dawn O'Porter