Noticing Patterns Quotes

The more you look, the more you will see.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.