Books Quote by Janet Evanovich

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

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'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third…

— Patti Davis

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her…

— Juliet Marillier

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

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

— Pearl Cleage

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

— William Kennedy

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

The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative is just…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

“My novels are written in first person so you can feel the emotion of the character.”

— Airambooksie

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

— Melissa McCarthy