“After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. — Drake Copy Share Image
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In the queue of changes, the first person to begin with is your very self. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
When I go out for dinner with friends, we all put our phones aside and the first person to pick up their… — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
“I pull my cigarette from my mouth and take a look around, meeting the eyes of my friends carefully,so they'll know how… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first… — Dale Steyn 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… — Vanderlei Luxemburgo Copy Share Image
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Who's this?" he said, coming across a name he didn't recognize. "Lady Georgina of Sandalhurst? Why are we inviting her? I don't… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“By December 1975, a year had passed since Mr. Harvey had packed his bags, but there was still no sign of him.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The people were all busy in their cars, listening to the radio, so there was no one to smile at, so I… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Despite his elegant appearance, Mr. Gweta’s most striking asset was his alluring personality. Professor Khupe had met few such men in his… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“All that evening he talked to the Candle of Arras, in a low confidential tone. When you get down to it, he… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image