Character Quote by Juliet Marillier

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

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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'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

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in…

— Rob Roberge

I have never successfully written in the third person. If there's a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed with the…

— Adam Rapp

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

— Anna Quindlen

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

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

— Emily Gould

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told…

— Arthur Herzog

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it's written in multiple points of view, so you're in the hero's head,…

— Sylvia Day