First Person Quotes

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

The first person I click on can't be the right choice.

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

I actually am always a music first person

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.