Quotes About Insight

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

I think you live and learn each year, whether you're a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don't.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

Everyone could always see Frank Lampard would become a head coach. The way he was as a player, always trying to help people and on everyone's case. I'm very happy for Chelsea.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

Putting any situation through our comedy lens always goes on in our heads.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

I am often able to hear what people are thinking.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

Sometimes you can listen to a song all your life without hearing it.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.