Quotes about Communication

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described

there's often more in silences than in what is actually said — in the lips pressed together, the head turned away, the quick sideways glance. The shoulders drawn up as if carrying a heavy weight.

know what you mean, we'd say. Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

You shouldn't have forged my handwriting," I said to Laura privately. "I couldn't forge Richard's. It's too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier." "Handwriting is a personal thing. It's like stealing.

your kiss no longer literature but fine print, a set of instructions.

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.