Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

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

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Understanding is a two-way street.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The very essence of modern life is the opportunity for people everywhere to speak, hear, persuade, change their minds, know what others are thinking, and think for themselves.

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

We have grown a lot as a couple. 'Nach Baliye' has made us understand each other in a way that now there is nothing missing in our relationship. We know each other fully.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

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.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

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.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.