Control Quote by Richard Price

“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

“always struck him how much more effective silence was than words. If the effect you were after was to disconcert.”

— Louise Penny

“there was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.”

— Julie Anne Long

“His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate, but he…

— Stephen King

“He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their breath.”

— Michael Wolff

“He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.”

— Ian Rankin Doors Open

“He was little more than a voice. And I heard-him-it-this voice-other voices-all of them were so little more than voices-and the memory of that…

— Joseph Conrad

“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

“Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time…

— Umberto Eco

“He doesn’t understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest…

— Steve Martin

“I stood benumbed. The man was like an electric shock--nothing to hold on to and you don't know what hit you.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“His voice sounded the same, now so familiar that I could follow the beat in my head, predicting each change of tone, each note…

— Kelley Armstrong