Real person Quote by Fannie Flagg

“People were sitting together, talking and telling stories face-to-face again, instead of staring at a cell phone screens while texting or chatting with someone…

— Mike Foster

“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.”

— Graham Greene

“You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would,…

— Brock Clarke

“There was silence. No one looked at me. People pretended to be absorbed in their phones. One writer didn’t even have a phone, so…

— Mindy Kaling

“Plenty of people on the street but all glued to their phones. Everyone was perpetually connected, but to what? She”

— Laura Griffin

“Some callings come to you only in memory. Some come only on the mouth of someone you trust. Some don’t need to be heard…

— Cole Arthur Riley

“To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it…

— Kelley York

“Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while…

— David Foster Wallace

“Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.”

— Anthony Liccione

“IF OUR PHONE CONVERSATION GETS DISCONNECTED, THERE’S NO NEED TO CALL BACK I get it. You get it. We take forever getting off the…

— Mindy Kaling

“Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a…

— The Fray

“I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the…

— James Dickey