Quote by Charles Stross

“That's me, giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner…

— Matthew Norman

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.”

— Robin Sloan

“Don't start with me right now, internal monologue.”

— J.A. Huss

“Well, so you don't get too cocky, I myself often complete the TV Guide crossword puzzle." He puffed out his chest. "In pen.”

— Shelly Laurenston

“I’m not going to lecture you on the error of your ways. Not until you fetch me a podium and a microphone. I’ll also…

— Jarod Kintz

“• Parallel monologues are often what people offer each other when they are in the same place as another but not with another. •”

— Dr. Dennis Cogswell

“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”

— Sarah Waters

“All this is a preface to the fear and uncertainties which clamber over a man so that in his silly work he thinks he…

— John Steinbeck

“Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I‘d spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn‘t sold that talking did a whole heck of…

— Ilsa J. Bick

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I…

— Gillian Flynn

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown