#conversation

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #conversation #engage #i #i am

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#any #conversation #dialogue #end #feel

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#change #conversation #knock #nine-tenths #once

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. ↗

— Ved Mehta

#art

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#am #bill #bill clinton #bush #called

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. ↗

— James Daly

#artists #conversations #down #got #greatest

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#camera #completely #conversation #could #go

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #certain #conversations #each #happens

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#absolutely nothing #charming #conversation #delightful #nothing