“I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.” IfsWorldWayWantWritingFirstsPersonsCharacterStoriesUsedHateUniverseStrongViewsBehindsCareersReaderThirdsPoint Of ViewTechniqueBelieverPlanesPerceiveCrashBehind YouFirst PersonViewpointsTelling StoriesOmniscientThird PersonPlane Crashes Author:George R. R. Martin
“Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror” WayFirstsPersonsHas BeensDifferentWarCountryStatesGovernmentLawThreeLibertySubjectsThirdsRuinsDifferent WaysFriendlyAntiwarAccustomedTributeConqueror Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.”” PeopleIfsWorldWantPersonsHelpingLightWifeThirdsIndiaAbandonedComebackThird WorldProminentLeper Author:Gail Collins
“Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.” PeopleWritingYearsFirstsLittlesPersonsStillsStoriesUsedSongDealsGoneTraditionThirdsDepthFolksStorytellingSongwritingSongwritersFirst PersonFolk MusicThird PersonFolk Songs Author:Bruce Hornsby
“'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.” WantFeelsFirstsPersonsBookDifferentNightCareersWrittenColdRiversThirdsEnvyDamageStand AloneThird PersonPseudonyms Author:Michael Koryta
“You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to…If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.” IfsWayWantLittlesPersonsLastsBeautifulAsksBitsMinutesMediaFiguresConversationLittle BitThirdsDown AndEndureBeautiful ThingsLast WordsThird Person Author:Warren Sapp
“I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.” ThinkingWellsPersonsSometimesNeededShotsThirdsBallsHotTonightQuartersPointers Author:Shawn Marion
“Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care” FirstsWellsPersonsCareThreeLove IsEmotionEventsBehaviorThirdsWell BeingMotiveMutualMomentaryBiochemistryPositive Emotions Book:Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection Source: Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection