First person Quote by Laura van den Berg

I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be the last.…

— Rabih Alameddine

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen…

— John Darnielle

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

— Adriana Trigiani

When I was younger, I wondered if it was possible to be a good person and a writer.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative…

— Alanis Morissette

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their…

— David Gerrold

“Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary…

— Thomm Quackenbush

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and…

— Harlan Ellison

“...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a…

— Anonymous

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I…

— Truman Capote

I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

— Emily Giffin

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.

— The Weeknd