Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

I never discuss discussions.

New Yorkers seem to think the best thing two people can do is talk.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

I've always been someone who likes to talk to people. When I was a little kid, I sought out freaks and weirdos that wandered the streets by where I worked in high school. I would just bring them in and talk to them.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

Talk without effort is nothing.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.