Mark Haddon Quotes

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

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

Good dialogue is very important.

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

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

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

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Public diplomacy should be more ear driven than mouth driven.

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'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.