#conversational

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#accidental #both #bubble #conversational #created

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#conversational #doing #friend #going #interview

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

Do you suppose it's so much easier to make conversation with someone you already know well than with someone you don't know at all primarily because of all the previously exchanged information and shared experiences between two people who know each other well, or because maybe it's only with people we already know well and know know us well that we don't go through the awkward mental process of subjecting everything we think of saying or bringing up as a topic of light conversation to a self-conscious critical analysis and evaluation that manages to make anything we think of proposing to say the other person seem dull or stupid or banal or on the other hand maybe overly intimate or tension-producing? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#experience

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#conversational #equivalent #experience #out #sort

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#conversational #dates #dreadfully #gray #gray hairs

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#dialog #difficult #flow #i #know

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#depends #going #hear #hendrix #i

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversational #exceeds #grasp #his #overachiever

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#am #conversational #engage #i #i am