Insightful Observations Quotes

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

I'm someone who likes to listen, who likes to watch, and who likes to learn.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

You can learn so much just by observing.

My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

Quique Sanchez Flores doesn't talk much but he's very intelligent.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.