Judith McNaught Quotes

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Even silence speaks.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.