The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
“What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective. — Thomas Metzinger 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
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“there are still times when the thief I started out to be feels more authentic to me than the priest I’ve been… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very,… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
“I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered… — Don Piper Copy Share Image
“I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever , not right… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things… — George Lucas 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
Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
I'm still very suspicious about this work, politics. I don't trust this world. And I know I'm not the first person to… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
“We have gathered here today to honor Benjamin Ripley for being the first person to ever regurgitate a wombat through a flugelhorn.” — Stuart Gibbs Copy Share Image
If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
The first person who's on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason of either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
The first person who teach you the meaning of the verb Love, will also be the first person who teaches you the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Fact: the first person you think of in the morning and the last thing you think about at night is either the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden.… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
