Quotes About Observation

Tôi nh?n ra r?ng ngay c? nh?ng ng??i luôn kh?ng ??nh m?i th? ??u Ä'ã ???c s?p ??t trÆ°á»›c và s? ch?ng làm gì có th? thay ??i ???c cÅ©ng v?n quan sát trÆ°á»›c khi qua ???ng.

he could make out face, he was under two hundred yards. If he could just make out head he was under three hundred. If he could make out only legs, he was under four hundred. If he could make out body, he was under five hundred; if he could only see movement, he was under six hundred.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

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

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

OH SHIT! I BELIEVE IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS! he shouted, and it was true: even at eleven he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary.

The snake said nothing in return. Snakes do not need to justify their behavior.

I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture!

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

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do—to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.

That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.

Liars see their own kind everywhere.