“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.” PeopleInspirationLiteraturePartyListeningAdvantageBoringSpyObservingScrap Author:Graham Greene
“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.” PeopleWritingBigsYoungReadingLiteratureSoundImaginationNovelForeverViolenceListeningBandJazzI Have LearnedMy ImaginationHauntingCrystalsSoftnessSaxophoneTenorsUnderstatementColtraneReading NovelsLester Young Author:Ernest Gaines
“"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature her life isn't much heard. For me, it was resisting all the more appealing characters and listening to the voice that hadn't been much heard from.” CharacterLiteratureVoiceHeardListeningUnderstoodResisting Author:Alice McDermott
“As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between the lines of what some body is saying and trying to read their mind a little bit where there at because most people don't really say what they're feeling. Which is the bones of great literature.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMindWellsLittlesImportantFeelingsBodyLiteratureBitsLinesListeningLittle BitCommunicateBonesBetween The LinesGreat LiteratureRead Between The Lines Author:Joy Behar
“Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.” IfsWellsFactsLiteratureListeningWideListsSpirals Author:William Golding
“Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.” PeopleWayDoeI CanReadingLiteratureChallengesListeningMonthsReportsLiteracyTrenches Author:Tom Peters
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolCultureLiteratureBrainTalkingListeningMessagesHigh SchoolBuiltCourtReunionAttendingPromHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Anna Quindlen
“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.” ThinkingHelpingLiteratureListeningBlessingBoredomConcentrationTeensTeenageListening To MusicHomeworkConcentratingTeenage Life Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.” WritingLooksLiteratureMinutesListeningViewers Author:Jessica Savitch