Quotes About Communication

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.

Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

I don't watch football debate shows on TV, hardly listen to the radio or read the papers.

There are innumerable television channels and papers, all very aggressive and not willing to take no for an answer.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are, and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

The guest to me was always paramount.

In my opinion, lyrics are a paramount factor and will always be.