Kate DiCamillo

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me.

American Author

Emma Healey

Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding. I'm constantly trying to remember an eavesdropped conversation or an idea for a story.

British Novelist

Jan Koum

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

American Businessman

Ben Marcus

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

Jane Smiley

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

American Writer

Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

American Novelist

Florence King

Optimists don't mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel.

James Lapine

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

American Director

Vladimir Putin

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

Russian Statesman

Elayne Boosler

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

American Comedian

Eavesdrop means listening without others knowing, often considered intrusive or impolite.

Secretly Listening

Eavesdropping usually suggests intention, unlike accidentally overhearing something.

Not an Accident

It involves being quiet or hidden to avoid detection; it's sneaky.

Stealth Required

 They're actually very scary, especially under a microscope. They have really sharp mandibles, are generally pretty aggressive, which I guess also helps them to be really good predators. In order to learn what's going on inside the dragonfly's brain when it sees a prey, we're going to eavesdrop in on a conversation between the eyes and the wings,

How a dragonfly's brain...

 In fact, people have been using lasers to eavesdrop on objects from a distance for decades. But what's really new here, what's really different, is that now we have a way to picture the vibrations of an object, which gives us a new lens through which to look at the world, and we can use that lens

Abe Davis: New video...

 Losing the sound of silence can be troubling to say the least. Tinnitus reveals that your brain is constantly analyzing the world around you, even as it fails to filter its own internal noise. In a sense, experiencing tinnitus is like eavesdropping on your brain talking to itself—

What’s that ringing in...

 If you're a writer, you may already have a few of these. The first is eavesdropping. If you're riding a bus and hear an interesting conversation, you could write it all down. Of course, when you write fiction, you're not describing real people, you're making up characters.

Three anti-social skills...

 can travel to a healthy plant and prompt it to turn on its immune system, too. These advance warnings increase the plants chance of survival. Bean plants also eavesdrop on each other's health through these fungal conduits. An aphid investation in one plant

Can plants talk to each...

 editor-at-large at national geographic magazine and this is overheard a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations we have here at natgeo and follow them to the edges of our big weird beautiful world over the last three years brian scary

The Secret Culture of...

 where learned behaviors are passed between unrelated individuals of the same species. We can eavesdrop on these songs using underwater microphones called hydrophones. These help us track species when sightings or genetic samples are rare.

Why do whales sing? -...

 And so it seems that we use our language, not just to cooperate, but to draw rings around our cooperative groups and to establish identities, and perhaps to protect our knowledge and wisdom and skills from eavesdropping from outside.

Mark Pagel: How language...

 just HTTP colon slash slash you're using cryptography with the word without even thinking about it to keep messages secret and people have been hiding messages and try to talk to people without others eavesdropping forever

The unexpected tool to...

 they will eavesdrop on the conversations of these mating prey species and use those conversations to their own advantage immediately after a femme fatale has mated with her