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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

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

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

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