Book Quote by William Matthews

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

— Publilius Syrus

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

— Victor De Kowa

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

— Dashiell Hammett

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

— George Santayana

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

— Sherry Turkle

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

— Ordway Tead

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

— Mark Haddon

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we…

— Will Schwalbe

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

— Isak Dinesen

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

— Anonymous

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz