Communication Quote by Diane Setterfield

“He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each and every…

— Blue Kincaid

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time…

— Umberto Eco

“he appeared to be struggling with something trapped in his throat; it turned out to be a word. "thanks," he said.”

— Dorothy Gilman

“His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“He rises off the bed and tries to speak, but cannot stop the pain in his throat, and cannot articulate a word, capable only…

— Emma Richler

“his throat, but his voice remained”

— Victoria Dougherty

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Their throat muscles shifted sharply when they spoke, as if separately manufacturing each word.”

— Walter Kirn

“By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.”

— Margaret Atwood