Communication Quote by Tim O'Brien

“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

“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

“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

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.”

— Peter Murphy

“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to squelch the…

— Richard Phillips

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“I was not too impressed with human language; it seemed absurdly limited. There was so much that couldn’t be put into words. That was…

— Alexandra Adornetto

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

“He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.”

— Ayn Rand

“As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to…

— Philip Yancey