Quotes About Insight

I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

I have always believed that God has a mysterious a way of revealing things.

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.

It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

I'm not as naive as some people think.

I'm not naive.

In some ways, my naivete saved me.

My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this when you have no children?' Maybe I just do and that's how it is. It all comes from my personality and what I believe in.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.