First-Person Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
• I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. — Tom Bodett
• Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world… — Meg Cabot
• When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie… — Douglas Trumbull
• Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
• You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter. — John Romero
• 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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb
• Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke
• 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
• 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
• I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports. — Penn Jillette
• 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 in literature. — Manuel Puig
• First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice
• There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought… — Kristen Stewart
• A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and… — Howard Rheingold
• Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person… — Orhan Pamuk
• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. — Orhan Pamuk
• The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment. — Siri Hustvedt

Who Wrote These First-Person Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 First-Person Quotes as follows:

• 2 First-Person Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
• 1 First-Person Quote by John Romero
• 1 First-Person Quote by Kate Atkinson
• 1 First-Person Quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• 1 First-Person Quote by Gary Kemp
• 1 First-Person Quote by Rachel Kushner
• 1 First-Person Quote by Meg Cabot
• 1 First-Person Quote by Tom Bodett
• 1 First-Person Quote by Howard Rheingold
• 1 First-Person Quote by Penn Jillette
• 1 First-Person Quote by Siri Hustvedt
• 1 First-Person Quote by James Lee Burke
• 1 First-Person Quote by Wally Lamb
• 1 First-Person Quote by Stanley Crouch
• 1 First-Person Quote by Douglas Trumbull
• 1 First-Person Quote by Anne Rice
• 1 First-Person Quote by Manuel Puig
• 1 First-Person Quote by Dennis Muren
• 1 First-Person Quote by Kristen Stewart
• 1 First-Person Quote by Lawrence Wright