Big problem Quote by Richard Phillips

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he…

— Jay Crownover

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Alexandra Bracken

“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.”

— Lisa Unger

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable…

— Elizabeth Bear

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make…

— Jon Krakauer

“He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.”

— Ayn Rand