Quotes About Communication

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Shit is universal no matter which language.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?

People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this.

Non chiamai Marion. Provai un senso di solitudine, in mancanza di parole migliori, ma in effetti è la parola giusta, una cosa a cui ho sempre cercato di oppormi e da cui sapevo come uscire, ma talvolta anche questo non bastava, e non la chiamai perché non volevo arrendermi, guardando la notte che scendeva.

Writing is freedom.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain.

She was shining a light on us, she was coming into being, endlessly being formed and reformed as the muscles in her face worked at smiling and speaking, as the electronic dots swarmed.

I am advising you in this matter not only as your chief of finance, but as a woman who would still be married to her husbands if they had looked at her the way you have looked at me here today.

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word identity has reached an end.

This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.

A film can be undermined by the person you're seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene, shot by shot.

I look at you. I know what you are. You are sloppy-bodied, smelly and wet. A woman who was born to sit trapped in a chair while a man tells her how much she excites him.

Is a cardigan what women wear when they don't want to talk about themselves?

A word is also a picture of a word.

I understood that he did not see the person he was talking to. He had the drifter's inclination to be impervious to names and faces. These were interchangeable components room to room, country to country. He did not talk so much as narrate. He traced a wavy line, his, and there was usually someone willing to be the random body that he told his stories to.