Certain Quote by Terry McMillan

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

— Wally Lamb

I'm such a first-person writer.

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Diane Wakoski

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've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there.…

— Matthew Specktor

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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 love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

— Eve Bunting

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still…

— Jason Robert Brown

I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to create a…

— Sasheer Zamata