Quotes on “conversation”

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.