Allan Gurganus Quotes

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Music is a dialogue.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

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

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

Talking is the disease of age.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

I'm a communicator.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I like talking. I like acting.