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“to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we…

— Howard Jacobson

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

— Anonymous

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

— William Matthews

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

“a book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet it refuses…

— Alec Hutson

“A book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet it refuses…

— Alec Hutson

“The least interesting aspect of good conversation is what is actually said. What is more interesting is all the deliberations and emotions that take…

— Tor Norretranders

“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.”

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of…

— Agnes Repplier

If I'm saying something with an intelligent background, then at least it is creating conversation. Whether that conversation is people agreeing or disagreeing, I'm…

— Jessica Mendoza

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them,…

— Rene Descartes