Quotes About Insight

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my invention.

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.

I think there's something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings you back to earth and kind of reminds you that your problems are quite small in retrospect.

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the result of a personal vision and genuine collaborations. 'Manchester by the Sea' reminds us of the potential of the latter and, for that reason, is the kind of work that makes me, as a filmmaker, want to continue. It's inspiring.

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

It takes me a while to figure things out. I usually have to repeat a lesson or two - maybe three times!

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

I feel like every repetition, every game, every practice that I'm allowed to watch, I'm picking up some small piece of information, a nuance about the game or a coach's philosophy.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

One of the things you do, when you have a scene or whatever it is you're doing, I replay that scene in my head and pick different positions to watch it from in my head.

Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.