Quotes About Viewpoint

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." [ Time Magazine , October 31, 1977]

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With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

You have to have a sense of what it looks like, not from the point of view of the policymaker but from the point of view of those who are at the receiving end of your policies.

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan.

Every story is narrated by someone, and since everyone has a viewpoint, every story is misnarrated (is narrated subjectively). Since all narration is misnarration, Gogol says, let us misnarrate joyfully. It's like a prose version of the theory of relativity: no fixed, objective, "correct" viewpoint exists; an unbalanced narrator describes, in an unbalanced voice, the doings of a cast of unbalanced characters. In other words, like life.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I don't watch goalkeepers, to be honest.

It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I've survived everything I've had to so far. I'm still standing here.

First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.

From a distance, people observed. Such a thing was easier from far away.

The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters.

I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.

Though realism may be a tempting viewpoint, as we'll see later, what we know about modern physics makes it a difficult one to defend.

To change your perspective, you have to change your perspective.