Quotes About Communication

If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write

Once again, Jack reached for her hand. It was the only thing he knew how to do. As it would turn out, it was about the only thing he reall knew.

It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.

There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.

What did you do that for?" the customs guy asked him. "We haven't been getting along lately," Jack admitted. "Well, this'll really help," the guy said.

He was asleep—he was still dreaming—though his lips were moving. No one heard him; no one hears a writer who's writing in his sleep.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.

Lies of omission count as lies, sweetie—they can be the worst ones.

Fucking men.

He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself at this moment of Homer's departure.

Amazing! said Mr. McSwiney. You've got a permanently fixed larynx, he told Owen. I've rarely seen such a thing, he said. Your voice box is never in repose - your Adam's apple sits up there in the position of a permanent scream. I could try giving you some exercises, but you might want to see a throat doctor; you might have to have surgery. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY, I DON'T NEED ANY EXERCISES, said Owen Meany. IF GOD GAVE ME THIS VOICE, HE HAD A REASON, Owen said.

Garp was a natural storyteller; he could make things up, one right after the other, and they seemed to fit. But what did they mean?

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. That

For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word.

I didn't try to say the penis word for Elaine. Cock, I said to her.

With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.

Americans are suckers for an English accent.

A loving couple will say things to each other - you know, Danny - just to make each other feel good about a situation, even if the situation isn't good, or it they shouldn't feel good about i, Ketchum said. A loving couple will make up their own rules, as if these made-up rules were as reliable or counted for as much as the rules everyone else tried to live by - if you know what I mean.

She say to tell you you was the nicest, Muddy told the boy. She say to tell your dad he a hero, and that you was the nicest.

You have taught yourself to read English, too," Pepe said slowly to the boy; the girl suddenly gave him the shivers, for no known reason. "English is just a little different—I can understand it," the boy told him

and they all settled into being the kind of friends many old friends become: that is, they were friends when they heard from each other—or when, occasionally, they got together.

Pinche pendejo chimuelo!

You can see why we children asked so many questions. It is a vague story, the kind parents prefer to tell.

It was not only because he spoke their language; it was his voice that compelled the children to listen to him—it was a voice like their voices. That was why they trusted him, why they listened. "DOONG SA," he said, and they stopped crying.