Rachel Joyce

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.

British Author

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

American Critic

David Whyte

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

English Poet

Helen Vendler

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.

Jason Schwartzman

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

American Actor

Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

American Novelist

Haim Ginott

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Israeli Educator

Louise Gluck

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

American Poet

Cynthia Rowley

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.

American Designer

Joan Didion

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

American Author

Overhear implies hearing something unintentionally, not on purpose.

Accidental Listening

When you overhear, the people talking are usually unaware that you can hear them.

Unnoticed Presence

Overheard conversations often contain private or sensitive information not meant for others.

Sensitive Information

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