Quotes About Conversation

I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

Pubs create an environment for people to react, for families, friends to go and meet.

All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I think when you meet someone and talk to them, then you get the real thing and that's what you can use. That's the material you can actually put on the page.

I guess that's the main thing when someone dies, the realisation that you won't get to be with them and talk to them.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip is conversation about people.

One doesn't gossip with a genius.

Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

It's very difficult to have a conversation about yourself when you're the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, as it was difficult for me to have a conversation about something without, 'What was she like? What was she really like?'