Quotes About Communication

Alec isn't good at keeping secrets from me! He told me beforehand that he was going to propose. I really love that about him, that we have no secrets.

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.

I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it's just not for me.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.