#lis

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#biggest #biggest mistake #conversation #listen #mistake

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#any #complete #complete freedom #fit #freedom

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#i #interested #not interested #received #scripts

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#believe #experience #fringes #funny #funny way

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#bird #even #everything #flower #ocean

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#better #between #comes #god #heart