174 Quotes About Point-of-view

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]

Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.

Most of our pain originates and is felt between our ears.

Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.

I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see and that is all okay with me.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.