Quotes About Insight

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

A lot of folks, they got a little bit of shine to them. They don't even know it. But they always seem to show up with flowers when their wives are feelin blue with the monthlies, they do good on school tests they don't even study for, they got a good idea how people are feelin as soon as they walk into a room.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit. Stephen King, On Writing

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon.

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

Don't wait for the muse.

People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book.

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need...

RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision.

Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.

Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

no man really knows another man's heart

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.