"Character and actor are the same person, character and actor are not the same, and the actor is leaving his role — he is not any more actor, and is watching the character playing itself.
The rules of teamwork concerning the respect of a person, character, experience and knowledge will lead to a relaxed atmosphere, constructive conflict, creative tension and enthusiasm.
Holden, Humbert and Portnoy are created in the first person, and the rise of first-person characters is yet another depleted literary result of the Freudian talking cure.
Of course if you'd told me, "Oh, you're going to write a novel, there's going to be 17 different first-person characters", I'd have quit, it would have been so daunting.
His songs, often expertly delivered from the perspective of flawed first-person characters, sound like movies he wants to see and books he wants to write but has instead rendered in the murder-ballad tradition.
Tomalin tries to be a good sport about this, noting the peculiar immortality that Pepys conferred upon young women like Betty Michell and Mrs. Bagwell (a regular), who still walk around as third-person characters in this vast first-person novel that happens to be true.
Another notion is that the songwriter should have a self to express; instead, Momus is masquerading, as narrator, third-person character or the sitters themselves.
Victoria is what is known in the museum business as a "first-person character," true to her own time and place.
It is has been hard to watch "The Hills" without developing at least a tepid affection for the person-character of Whitney Port.
The first-person character she brings to this quest isn't ironically brooding or darkly extravagant in the manner of Didion or Mailer, nor severely pedagogical like their predecessor, the Hemingway of "Death in the Afternoon".
