The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more. Alberto Manguel
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally. Jean Cocteau
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie." Jean Piaget
I was not speaking of minor ripples in the mainstream of history-certainly those are ruled by chance. But the broad current moves quite inexorably, I assure you. Poul Anderson
Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth? Thomas Carlyle
I never found it frustrating not speaking. David Selby