Books Quote by Sally Rooney

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

“Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It…

— Judith Martin

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“all the respects that I have so far mentioned, conversation fits the bill of a free association which is subservient to no purpose but…

— Roger Scruton

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers…

— Laini Taylor

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it…

— Jesse Andrews

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from…

— Anne Fortier

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

— Ordway Tead

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson