Paul Bloom Quotes

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

Those who write clearly have readers.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

A great speech is literature.

We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and show them our theory as to why what we're talking about needs to be talked about.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what you produced. But it also felt like you had a limited ability to shape the audience, or to acquire an audience, for what you were doing. So you didn't really think too much about that.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.