Book Quote by William Saroyan

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for…

— Frank McCourt

“Remy didn't suggest an ounce of discourtesy, but only had a different way of talking. It's something Chester'd learned, how a person's words did…

— Lori Lansens

“And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very…

— Carson McCullers

“He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better than a…

— Christopher Golden

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for…

— Nicole Krauss

“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

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“I wanted to stand up and shout that this was unfair, but loud voices were not permitted in the library.”

— Lynn Austin