First person Quote by James McBride

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

— Anne Rice

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

“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and theater, two…

— Chris Kraus

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's…

— Tamora Pierce

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

— Truman Capote

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the…

— Akhil Sharma

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

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

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're…

— Bob Shacochis