If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
“She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.”
“A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.”