Always Quote by Sylvia Day

The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative is just…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and…

— Philip Pullman

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of…

— Victor LaValle

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of…

— Julia Glass

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend…

— Paul Auster

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

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

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same…

— Lulu Wang

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these…

— Lauren Mayberry