Communication Quote by Steve Erickson Download Open image “If you're a smart writer, you listen.” — Steve Erickson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Ifs Intelligence Smart Writing
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Any time I think I'm smart, I'm not. There's a great movie, Out of the Past, where Robert Mitchum says, 'I never found out… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!” — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
“Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I have members of my immediate family, and my wife's immediate family, who voted for Donald Trump, and now there's this gulf that I… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
