"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter……" — James Lee Burke
"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
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55 Quotes by James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke has 55 quotes on this site.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent…
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever…
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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the…
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard…
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can…
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your…
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned…
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make…
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More First Person Quotes
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one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years…
— Karen Armstrong
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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…
— Kate Atkinson
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When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making…
— Scott Adams
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear…
— Ambrose Bierce
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd…
— Ben Affleck
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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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I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have…
— Gisele Bundchen
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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…
— Meg Cabot
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Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to…
— Edith Schaeffer
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
— Swami Satchidananda
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to…
— Unknown Author
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