Communication Quote by Maile Meloy

“She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.”

— Sue Grafton

“Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, “That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.”

— Sharon Creech

“He thought women were every bit as intelligent as men, every bit as capable of figuring out how long it would take for train…

— Adelle Waldman

“Benjamin Munro was his name. She mouthed the syllables silently, Benjamin James Munro, twenty-six years old, late of London. He had no dependents, was…

— Kate Morton

“They were both questing for the behavior that was proper to their station and their unutterable dreams. They both knew intimately the etiquette, the…

— William Kennedy

“These were the mysteries of men, so baffling to women. Where silences could become a conjoining of paths. Where a handful of inconsequential words…

— Steven Erikson

“While Bitty’s tone was pleasantly concerned, it held that unmistakable Southern belle cattiness that wouldn’t escape the attention of anyone familiar with polite social…

— Virginia Brown

“Great men speak secrets about themselves with nods and gestures, walking away from jokes about women rather than condemn the jokester; if with a…

— Lee Goff

“So many of the blemished didn’t know what to do with silence. Sunny’d learned that well enough at the coffee shop, where people insisted…

— Megan Hart

“You know women when they get talking. They don't stop for anything but unconsciousness.”

— Jennifer Ashley

“Like other inveterate womanizers Strike had encountered, Duffield’s voice and mannerisms were slightly camp. Perhaps such men became feminized by prolonged immersion in women’s…

— Robert Galbraith

“Somehow, good talking had gotten tied up with good sex in his mind. He wanted a woman to talk to, one to whom he…

— Betty Smith