Attention Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre…

— Min Jin Lee

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to…

— Brad Listi

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

— Kate DiCamillo

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just…

— Little Simz

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about.…

— Harry Crews

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

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

You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large…

— David McCullough

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent,…

— Mark Haddon

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