Extremists think ‘communication’ means agreeing with them.
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.
No ideas and the ability to express them – that’s a journalist.
One must be frank to be relevant.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Writing is the supreme solace.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Writing only leads to more writing.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
There’s all these ways to instantly communicate – cars, computers, telephone and transportation – and even with all that, it’s so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.
It’s like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There’s all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
Language cares.
