First person Quote by Laura van den Berg Download Open image “I'm such a first-person writer.” — Laura van den Berg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare First person Writer Writing
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I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. — Drake Copy Share Image
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
