Overheard Quotes

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.