First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne RiceHe was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.
Anne RiceWhat if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.
Anne RiceTo be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.
Anne Rice