The Importance of Point of View

On the day after your final exams, you began writing your first novel. You always knew you were going to write a novel. I realized quite soon that the point of view had to be anchored somewhere. And that is actually the fundamental storytelling question. This basic little question about point of view must have been discussed at dozens of lectures, tutorials, seminars, whatever,. and I just hadn't gone along and hadn't come across it until I started doing it.