I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper…

“Over the weeks I am surprised to find that the more stories I record and the longer I carry them around, the lighter they…

— Brigid Pasulka

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

— William Gibson

“To write better dialogue, I turned into an eavesdropper.”

— Ksenia Anske

My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.

— Jane Fallon

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

The word 'eavesdropper' originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the 'eavesdrip' of their…

— Susie Dent

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

— Laura van den Berg

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

— Rick Riordan

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

— Kenneth Tynan

“the end of the day we’re all animals. We need to be shown our pee ell a see ee. A little clarity will go…

— Arundhati Roy

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe…

— Nicole Krauss

“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

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

— Natalie Goldberg

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

— Emily Giffin