Jonathan Stroud Quotes

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

I have so many things I want to say.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

A man without words is a man without thought.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.