(3 quotes found)
“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
“EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself.A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free -- The subject engaging them was she."I think," said one, "and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!" As soon as no more of it she could hear The lady, indignant, removed her ear."I will not stay," she said, with a pout,"To hear my character lied about!" --Gopete Sherany”
Ambrose Bierce
“Sometimes when everybody is playing at once, I listen here with one ear and overhear with the other ear.”
Virginia Anderson
