Almost Quote by Laurie Graham

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

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

— James Lee Burke

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress…

— Norman Lock

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

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

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

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar…

— Kate Christensen

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

— Rebecca Hall

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

— Nell Freudenberger

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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