John Dewey Quotes

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend all my days going, 'Hello, you don't know me. I'd like to ask you some questions. Do you have a little time?'

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Public diplomacy should be more ear driven than mouth driven.

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.