Quote for Today: Douglas Adams
“The difficulty with this conversation,” said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, “is that it’s very …
Quote for Today: Ian McEwan
He’s never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. ―Ian McEwan, Saturday
The Depths of Nonverbal Conversation: Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present
Art and conversation contain elements that evade language and communicate on a different level. How do these elements reach us? Marina Abramović is one of the world’s most famous performance artists. …
Quote for Today: Charles Taylor
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our …
Quote for Today: Dan Chaon
I’ve been talking to myself a lot lately. I don’t know what that’s about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, …
Faking English: Skwerl by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
If a conversation contains patterns taken from English but not sensible words, do we still perceive it as English? What is it that gives a language its own personality and …
Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. …
Quote for Today: Dorothy L. Sayers
A man once asked me… how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member …