""I think what we do is intuitive, but it's also essentially about observation." He was looking down at his cup as if he was reading the tea leaves. "If your work is about observation, then it seems only natural –– to me at least –– that you never stop observing. You observe obsessively... and minutely. You train yourself to look inside, outside, peripherally. You study art and music, the way people dance, walk, lie –– and tell the truth. You record your dreams and you're willing to learn from them.""
–– Scott Thornley, Canadian novelist and creative director
Source: Scott Thornley. Erasing Memory. Toronto: House of Anansi Press (Random House), 2011 (2018), p. 155. Character Detective MacNeice to colleague Fiza Aziz. Erasing Memory was Scott Thornley's debut mystery novel.
Via Book of Commonplace 2017-2020, p. 131-2
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