Language Quote by Alexandra Bracken

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he…

— Jay Crownover

“He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine inches deep into the beams of our minds.”

— Chigozie Obioma

“He was little more than a voice. And I heard-him-it-this voice-other voices-all of them were so little more than voices-and the memory of that…

— Joseph Conrad

“His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate, but he…

— Stephen King

“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.”

— Lisa Unger

“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to squelch the…

— Richard Phillips

“It amazed her, the length at which old men could talk. She wondered if it wasn't the sound of his own voice, rather than…

— Omar El Akkad

“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”

— Samuel Beckett

“He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.”

— Louise Penny