#overhear

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

— Shirley Booth

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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

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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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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