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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 create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

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

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 take on everything they observe.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

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.

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

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