Attention Quote by Judy Blume

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel…

— Lisa Unger

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

— Lauren Conrad

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

— Jared Kushner

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

— Joan Didion

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything.…

— Dani Shapiro

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way…

— Don DeLillo

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks