“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”— William Zinsser Related Quotes “Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. ‘Lost Illusion’ is the undisclosed title of every novel.”— André Maurois “The pen is mightier than the sword!”— Edward Bulwer-Lytton “Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”— John Steinbeck