Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills!
Robert FanneyTags: books writing silence criticism
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
Remy de GourmontTags: silence decadence scoundrel
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da VinciTags: acquiescence silence dissent protest authority complicity
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
E.L. KonigsburgTags: silence
Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held their breath. Or, as I heard later, many did what me and my mum did and closed their eyes. We closed our eyes in a bid to remove ourselves.
Lloyd JonesOn the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
Mark HaddonTags: perspective silence rain empty white-noise
Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.
Pascal MercierTags: silence
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
Per PettersonTags: dogs silence death sad lonely emptyness
I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
Henry RollinsTags: silence
I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.
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