"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."

Observation, Loneliness

40

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."

Exlpore more Observation quotes

"The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Observation, Social Media, Reading, Connection, Insight

"People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Observation, Interest, Animals, Humanity

"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Observation, Morning, Humanity, Affection

"I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink."

Rick Yancey, American Author

Observation, Light, Smile, Humanity

"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough."

Christopher Paolini, American Author

Observation, World, Truth, Wisdom

"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners."

J.R. Rim, American Author

Observation, Freedom, Nature, Experience

"The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."

Marie Lu, American Author

Observation, Sensitivity, Humanity, Empathy

"I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Observation, Vision, Perception, Clarity

"Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Observation, Action, Impact, Life

"His eyes said what I cannot see."

Dominic Riccitello, American Author

Observation, Insight, Perception, Emotion

Explore more quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."

Space

"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."

Students

"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."

Fiction

"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

Deception

"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."

People

"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."

Reading

"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."

People

40

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Observation quotes

"The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul."

"People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."

"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."

"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough."

"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners."

"The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."

"I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too."

"Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder."

"His eyes said what I cannot see."

Explore more quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."

"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."

"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."

"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."

"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."

"Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas."

"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."

"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."

"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."