It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field. You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the field.