Always Quote by Laurie Graham

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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— James Lee Burke

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

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

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

— Rebecca Hall

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

— William S. Burroughs

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

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'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

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

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just…

— James Scott Bell