First Person Quotes

249 First Person quotes by 210 unique authors

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books. — Brent Runyon
You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter. — John Romero
One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was… — Lily Rabe
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black… — Tinie Tempah
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to… — Lawrence Wright
I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on.… — Nik Wallenda
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb
First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world… — Juliet Marillier
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride
I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art… — Daniel D. Palmer
The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae... I… — Daniel D. Palmer
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably… — Tom Ford
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was… — Ariel Gore
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 young thing, I'm… — Whitney Cummings
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as… — Eben Alexander
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs… — Eric Bogosian
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke
In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. — Patricia Cornwell
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or… — Stanley Crouch
If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off… — Dhani Harrison
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take… — Rachel Kushner
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an… — Gary Kemp
Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but… — Elliott Yamin
I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in… — Miroslav Vitous
People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they consider to be… — Rudy Giuliani

Who Wrote These First Person Quotes

210 authors contributed a total of 249 First Person Quotes, led by these top contributors: