First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne Rice
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. - Philip Pullman