First-Person Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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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
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I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
— Tom Bodett
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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
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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
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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
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You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.
— John Romero
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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
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
— Wally Lamb
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
— James Lee Burke
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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
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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
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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
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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
— Penn Jillette
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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
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
— Anne Rice
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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
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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
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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
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
— Orhan Pamuk
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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: