Mary Roach Quotes

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say.

I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation.

I just think it's interesting to start a dialogue.

Lance Palmer, I'm always talking with.

I love talking directly to the fans.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.