Pico Iyer Quotes

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

I like talking.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.