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Quotations About Listening
Featured Quotations
for the Month of June:
On Listening & Writing
The
most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and
be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen
to them. — Ralph Nichols
It is insight into human
nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas
the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings,
the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out
of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or
listen. — William Bernbach
The discipline of the writer
is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has
to tell him. — Rachel Louise Carson
Many people hear voices when
no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut
up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others
are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
— Meg Chittenden
I have learned as much about
writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and
spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines
If I had to give young writers
advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about
writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman
I learned to write by listening
to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes
from having heard rather than having read. — Gayl Jones
Between the writing of plays,
in the vast middle of the night, when our children and their
mother slept, I sat alone, and my thoughts drifted back in
time, murmuring the remembrance of things past into the listening
ear of silence; fashioning thoughts to unspoken words, and
setting them down upon the sensitive tablets of the mind.
— Sean O'Casey
All speech, written or spoken,
is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared
listener. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Long before I wrote stories,
I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more
acute than listening to them. When their elders sit and begin,
children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out,
like a mouse from its hole. — Eudora Welty
The discipline of the writer
is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has
to tell him. — Anonymous
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