Quotes About Insight

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Feel provides an important channel of information.

Everyone provides a different experience, and for me, personally, it's important that all perspectives are seen.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

We're seeing more of the female psyche on screen than we used to.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I'm good at fitting in, and I think I'm fairly perceptive about moods and psychic environments.

I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?

I am psychic.

I'm not psychic myself.

Clearly, I'm not psychic.