Quotes about Keenness

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

— Anne Lamott

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

— William Wordsworth

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost

— Anne Lamott