I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The casting process for 'Hate Mail' just got so difficult. Once you lock in one person and then you try to find… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
“Good things never come in suits and make-up, that person you diverge from because they are in sweat, overalls and boots -… — Kabelo Mabona Copy Share Image
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should… — Zion Williamson Copy Share Image
Firoz Nadiadwala is a close friend; he was the first person who asked me to direct a film for him. I would… — Paresh Rawal 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
“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
I'm not the first person to talk about this, but L.A. is just sort of a weird city because it's just a… — Paul Rust 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
“How should I write this? In third person so it becomes just a story? In second so that you can pretend you… — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We’re saved through grace” The Antioch church rejoiced. God had opened the door of faith for the Gentiles! But then some people… — Daniel Partner Copy Share Image
“Sam - I liked you from the first moment I met you! I made you invite me to your house for a… — Melissa Keil Copy Share Image
“beer, chatting amiably. They hid their thighs with waist blankets and caped themselves in shoulder blankets that reached the ground. Dindi slithered… — Tara Maya Copy Share Image
“It's ridiculous. Here I sit in my little room, I, Brigge, who have got to be twenty-eight years old and about whom… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I have to think of this as a mental exercise, not a physical exercise. So I spend the first few minutes practicing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“As the sole surviving child of that family, I find myself left with certain difficulties in the area of speech and language,… — Joanne Limburg Copy Share Image
“The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
“She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted. Understood. I blink back tears. It's… — Lisa Fipps Copy Share Image
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“So they promised this new way of living to the whole world, but when you promise something to the world, the first… — Catie Disabato Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
