Quote by Margaret Atwood

“It was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.”

— Aimee Bender

“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”

— Albert Camus

“People had long conversations with him, only to realize later that he hadn't spoken.”

— Laura Hillenbrand

“And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to…

— Morgan Matson

“There's no need for us to talk. That's how it's like with us. We talk without speaking.”

— Yvonne Prinz

“How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time.”

— Katrina Kittle

“We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension…

— Patti Smith

“In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.”

— Violet Kupersmith

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way…

— John Green