Quotes About Insight

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world…

Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities.

My eyes rolled so far back in my head that I could see myself think

I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.

total sense, but it was as

Not that I'm aware," Sunshine said.

photograph?" "Information

There was no expression to his face. He looked like he'd seen it all and didn't think much of it.

You sound like your mother." "Sometimes she's right." Truth is, she was almost always right. And my life would probably be improved if I listened to her more often.

As far as you know? I can't know any further than that.

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three cheers for Eve.

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

This was an artist's stare, attentive to detail, taking in the truth without preconceptions.

It was as if I was blind and she'd told me, sight doesn't matter, it's just as well you can't see.

And I realized as walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty separate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.

Theory and interpretation, far from threatening works of art, keep them alive.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that isn't working. To perceive the world differently we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now and dissolve the fear in our minds.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.