Quotes About Communication

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

Please understand and love me.

I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Every one needs to talk to some one, the woman said. Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

Do you feel better?' he asked. 'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

I wish to marry her . . . But she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative.

It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any;then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and finally, if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything.

Tell him I think writing is lousy, Bill said. Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.