“Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.” PeopleFirstsHumansPersonsJobsViolenceThreatOccasionsWillingnessThinkerContinuityFirst PersonMetaphoric Author:Stanley Crouch
“If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.” IfsKnowsFirstsPersonsWould BeGuyDesignRight NowStonesApplesApplicationBetter OffFirst PersonIphoneZeppelins Author:Dhani Harrison
“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 take on everything they observe.” FirstsPersonsKnowingReaderStrategyFirst PersonNarrators Author:Rachel Kushner
“Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.” FeelsFirstsMayPersonsLyingReadingWrittenGhostInterviewsAutobiographyFirst Person Author:Gary Kemp