Connection Quote by Sally Rooney

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

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

— Truman Capote

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

— Anne Rice

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

— Sarah Dessen

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

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a…

— Rachel Kushner

When you're writing in first person you have to be honest about how people think.

— Dawn O'Porter

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

— Pearl Cleage

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

— Emily Giffin

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

I'm such a first-person writer.

— Laura van den Berg

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd