Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's…

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

— Katherine Paterson

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same…

— Shepard Fairey

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

— Jay DeMarcus

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has…

— Kenneth Oppel

“How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

— Kristen Stewart

“There was silence on the other end. The static crackle from one hundred kilometres of telephone lines. Crows sitting on them, shivering, while people's…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

I think most people's conversations are as light as they are dark. That's how life is.

— Karen Kilgariff

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

— Louise Gluck

I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what…

— Jorie Graham

“I don’t want to suggest that I was listening to or even overhearing the conversation the two of you were having. I am not…

— Daniel Wallace

“See, I always forget this about you," he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

“Even if she realized that they didn’t want her overhearing their conversation, she didn’t seem to care at all.”

— Christa Faust

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte