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

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

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

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.