Quotes About Observation

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

My friends will be like, 'That bloke was chatting you up', and I'll go, 'What?' I'm so oblivious - I don't notice things like that.