Third Person Quotes

55 quotes by 49 authors

Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me… — Tyra Banks
To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give… — Teresa of Avila
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what… — George R. R. Martin
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 my… — George R. R. Martin
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and… — Michael Koryta
You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is,… — Warren Sapp
In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to… — Don DeLillo
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their… — Diana Abu-Jaber
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. — Alexandra Kollontai
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She may start pacing… — Kevin Hart
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 thinking.… — Tamora Pierce
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss
Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We… — Juliet Marillier
I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm… — Sophie Kinsella

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