Communication Goal Quotes

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.