Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“for their signatures, she returned visitors’ passes with dexterity, if not pleasure. Nikki hoped to be the first person allowed inside, but… — Lisa Jackson Copy Share Image
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
All that matters is the fact that I'm the first person people are thinking of when they wake up and I'm the… — Maxwell Jacob Friedman Copy Share Image
I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Every woman treats me that way, Reese. I’m not a person to them. I’m just…a good time or something vile to be… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
It's funny because, based on the music I was making before, if you'd asked me who was the one gatekeeper or influencer… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“Go to your closest grocery store, walk up to the first person you see and tell them "I WANT TO HAVE MY… — Mike Sov Copy Share Image
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and the fear that in another ten years… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid… — John Green Copy Share Image
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and… — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
When Grant Hill came back to Orlando after having all of his surgeries, I was the first person to call him and… — Penny Hardaway Copy Share Image
A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb… — Wanderlei Silva Copy Share Image
To be able to be the first person from NXT to defend their NXT Championship at WrestleMania is awesome and I love… — Rhea Ripley Copy Share Image
When anyone talks about lucha libre and that style of wrestling, the first person they think of is Mil Mascaras. The other… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
“Margaret is the first person who understands that my dull universe is the place where self-loathing blends with sitcoms and dullness like… — Molly Jong-Fast Copy Share Image
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first person you think of in the morning, or last person you think of at night, is either the cause of… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I always say Jarmere Jenkins is the first role model I ever had. That was kind of the first person that I… — Christopher Eubanks Copy Share Image
People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be… — Tiki Barber Copy Share Image
No other show was as absurd as 'Crackerjack'. It had Stu Francis, who was the first person I saw on TV telling… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“How badly she wanted to shake her eldest and cry out that you don’t have to marry the first person who likes… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image