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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener,…

— Michael Pollan

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

— Diane Wakoski

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

— William Zinsser

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

— Margaret Atwood

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

— Lana Del Rey

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

— Rod Stewart

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

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

— Ernest Hemingway

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

— Janet Evanovich

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to…

— John Scalzi