Description Quote by Stephen King

“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

“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

“It amazed her, the length at which old men could talk. She wondered if it wasn't the sound of his own voice, rather than…

— Omar El Akkad

“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

“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

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound…

— N.M. Lombardi

“At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke…

— Rupert Thomson

“Coldness etched his gaze. Aloofness whispered from his posture. Calculation radiated from his every pore. I'd never been so intimidated or so intimately challenged.”

— Pepper Winters

“He stood just near the club’s steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I’d passed him…

— S.C. Parris

“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“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