Ex husband Quote by Kate Christensen

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

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

— 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

“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 often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded…

— Lorrie Moore

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

— Adam Duritz

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

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and…

— Laura van den Berg

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves,…

— Richard Matheson

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur