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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

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.

Sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. — Michael Ondaatje

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

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference. — Alice McDermott

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

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. — Manuel Puig

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

Third person, really? That's so sixteen hundreds. — Ashlan Thomas

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

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman? — Kate Zambreno

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'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

It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does. — David Rakoff

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

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

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

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

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

Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today. — Sara Ella

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

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

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

It pains me to speak of God in the third person. — Martin Buber

They made you speak about god in the third person — Darnell Lamont Walker

Death means you are in the third person. — Michael Ondaatje

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

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

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

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

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

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. — Kollontai Alexandra

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