Time Quote by Ann Patchett

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.”

— Walker Percy

“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What the audience heard was like nothing they had ever encountered.”

— Charles W. Colson

“Yes, I know you consider it a waste of time under the circumstances, but we have time to waste.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“even the silence, if you listened, meant something.”

— Patrick Phillips

“What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.”

— Mitch Albom

“Music was strange that way though; there were people into any damned thing, it seemed like, and if you got enough of them together…

— William Gibson

“Why did nobody in my life listen to me? So many things could be averted if they did.”

— Donna Augustine

“It was clear that the old man used it for a workshop. What he worked on wasn’t at all clear.”

— Bobby Adair

“The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds.”

— Pat Conroy

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of…

— Stephen King

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way…

— John Green