The Third Person Quotes
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
— Andrew Vachss
Never say to a third party something about someone that you do not plan to say to the person himself.
— Henry Cloud
One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.
— Graham Greene
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Grace does not share ice cream. She does, however, talk about herself in the third person.
— Alice Clayton
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
— John Fowles
Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
— Cass McCombs
If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.
— Chris Wooding
Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
— Andromeda Edison
This sense of alarm about the impact of speech not on yourself but on others is called the third person effect.
— David McRaney
Some days I am the complete third person- the secret agent. Nobody knows I'm there, yet I know everything.
— Anna Paszkiewicz
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
— John Sergeant Wise
Sing in me, o Muse, of that small minority of men who are secure enough in their masculinity to use the feminine third-person singular!
— Mary Norris
I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.
— Ralph Eugene Meatyard
The only problem I had was that my whole life was a lesson in the effect of echoes, that I was living in the third person.
— Don DeLillo
Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today.
— Sara Ella
Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.
— Cassandra Clare
Finally, Jace suspects it's a bad sign that he is referring to himself in the third person.
— Swati Avasthi
I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.
— Joan Rivers
The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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.
— Patti Davis
I'd learned never to be a snob until I got to know a person's worth; and how can you get to know a person well if you don't have coffee together?
— Costas Taktsis
Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.
— William Wegman
It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?
That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes. — Patrick Bryant
That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes. — Patrick Bryant
They made you speak about god in the third person
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
— Kollontai Alexandra
Better for Hook,' he cried, 'if he had had less ambition.' It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person. 'No
— J.M. Barrie
Sometimes there are two persons who disagree, and there comes a third person and all unite together. Is this not the nature of music?
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.
— Lysander Spooner
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
— Ernest Hemingway,
That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
— Anthony Jeselnik
Death means you are in the third person.
— Michael Ondaatje
Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
— Bob Weinstein
It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
— Martin Buber