Quotes About Communication

Tell me a story" is as old as humankind. It's a prehistoric request, going back to when people sat around fires in caves. A novelist's first goal, above all, is to tell a story.

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

A reader is your partner, a friend, not someone who needs to be impressed. Keep the writing honest, make it come from the heart.

In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

Write a novel so clear and compelling you'll never need to explain what it's about.

A good novel is an intensely personal rendezvous between reader and writer.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.

The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

When somebody says to you, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you" what they really mean is, "It's on the list. I've just got some other things to do first."

Humor is more than entertainment or joke telling—it's a powerful social lubricant that eases and enriches communication, interpersonal relations, and education. Humor is a universal speech opener because it immediately earns the speaker respectful attention. It's psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you've laughed. When we laugh, we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh. —Robert Orben

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.