Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I love meeting people.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

I meet a lot of people.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

I love meeting new people.

If you think meet-and-greets are fundamentally stupid, then you're never not gonna think that.

Communicating with a man is a very new experience for me.

My social life is so important to me.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Conversation makes one what he is.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

I find people confusing.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.