Method of driving liquid crystal display device during write period

There are provided a method of driving a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display device, and a portable device including the liquid crystal display device that can display an image where the occurrence of flicker is restrained when pause driving is performed. In a positive polarity pixel, a voltage of a counter electrode applied during a write period T1 is set to be higher than a counter voltage applied during a pause period T2 and is brought back to its original reference value immediately before starting the pause period T2. In this case, in the positive polarity pixel, the voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer decreases by an amount corresponding to the increase in the voltage of the counter electrode during the write period T1, compared to a negative polarity pixel, and thus, the change in luminance over time decreases.