Differences Quote by Alice McDermott

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and…

— Ada Limon

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do,…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“I keep telling my students to never give up chasing your dreams. And I too will never give up chasing my dreams.”

— Avijeet Das

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

— Daphne du Maurier

“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we…

— Philip Pullman

I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during…

— George R. R. Martin

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person…

— Daniel Goleman

Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is,…

— Neal Stephenson

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to…

— Brian Greene

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's…

— Tamora Pierce

“The Sargon account is written in the first person, as is highly typical for royal narrative inscriptions, whereas the Moses account is written in…

— Joshua A. Berman