Crafts Quote by John Fowles

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 very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock

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

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role,…

— Julia Leigh

I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

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

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

— James Lee Burke

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of…

— Victor LaValle

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

— Emily Gould

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

— Molly Crabapple