The Third Person Quotes

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

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do. — Ringo Starr

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 learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons. — Craig Kilborn

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

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else. — Renee Fleming

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,

When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer. — Gretchen Rubin

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

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. — Emily Gould

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

Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person. — Rihanna

You've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ... — John Geddes