Quotes About Observation

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

Here's a helpful life tip. Stand by things that are white cuz it makes you look less white.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

I learn life from the poets.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.