Quote by Donald E. Westlake

“They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they…

— Tom Rachman

“The other rooms were thick with the corpses of suffocated words.”

— Diane Setterfield

“The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below. She made the empty rooms roar with accusation…

— Ray Bradbury

“Those are not hollow words, casually spoken in order to offer shallow comfort.”

— C.G. Ayling

“Their veil-muffled voices became loud and crisp. It felt strangely intimate to see them this way, the shapes and textures of their hair, the…

— Jennifer Klinec

“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”

— Jodi Picoult

“In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face,…

— Émile Zola

“But a lone voice carries no weight in a room full of hot air. It floats on the currents of bureaucracy and gets absorbed…

— L.T. Ryan

“They also knew that the most frightening Talent was that which required no fanfare at all, that which slipped unnoticed to lie beside you…

— Jaida Jones

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great…

— Theodore Dreiser

“Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.”

— Mark Twain