Quote by Francine Rivers

“She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a…

— Katherine Mansfield

“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”

— Stephen Chbosky

“He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance…

— Lydia Davis

“Even the way he was the only man she’d ever met who both could and dared to hold up his side of a conversation…

— Suzanne Enoch

“I'm one of those guys who actually listens when his woman talks. I'm a rare breed. Dangerous, apparently, since you aren't expecting me to…

— Stephanie Rowe

“an indication that she didn’t have any true emotions. She talked loud and was stubborn as hell, but she loved hard. When the people…

— Jackie Chanel

“She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she…

— Freya North

“His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed,…

— Sue Woolfe

“If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to…

— S.E. Hinton

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

— Walker Percy

“He found it difficult to talk to other people.”

— Paulo Coelho