Books Quote by Patricia Cornwell Download Open image “In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.” — Patricia Cornwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cases Feels First person Firsts Persons Reader Smart
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers". — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
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… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out… — John Caples Copy Share Image
“Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.” — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“People don’t really know what anything is really like until it really happens to them.” — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
