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I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

— Ned Vizzini

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Anne Rice

While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.

— Hakan Nesser

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

— Chris Raschka

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

— Daphne du Maurier

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

— Bono

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

— Lois Lowry

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

— Karan Mahajan

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.

— Peter Sis