Ned Vizzini Quotes

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I'm such a first-person writer.

Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

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.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.

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

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

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

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

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.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

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.

Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to replicate it exactly, the way I got around it was by inventing a new narrator.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.