Quotes About Insight

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

I was told one time never to go longer than an hour in an interview because you reveal yourself too much, but I never follow that rule.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

I've probably spent more time than any other brand reading every last comment. To listen to people the way you're able to online is very powerful.

The only time information is really an edge is if you either have more or you're using it better.

Everybody has an angle. The only time I say no to an interview is when someone says they don't have an angle. I know right away that that's not honest.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

When I'm onstage, I'm on, but a different part of me is on: the part of me that absorbs life, sees everything occurring, and touches on everything around me.

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

My brain is open.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I'm interviewing so that they feel comfortable enough to open up and share their story with me.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.