Quote by Tim O'Brien Download Open image ““Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.”” — Tim O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.” — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
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“I spoke very quietly because the more quietly you speak, the more people listen.” — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
“He just says out loud what other folk keep in the quiet of their hearts.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Just like a man,” she says. “Does not know how to be silent, thinks we always want to hear what he has to say,… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace… — Noor Iskandar Copy Share Image
“In the silences between his words, listen to what you have to say back. Therein lies his message.” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“You are my courage, as I am your Conscience," he whispered. "You are my hear and I your compassion. We are neither of us… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human, it doesn't… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it." Tone?' The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
