“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”— Donald Winnicott, goodreads.com
“Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Today we are not so much communicating as miscommunicating. Or failing to communicate. Or choosing to communicate only with those who think as we do. Or communicating in a manner that is wholly detached from reality. Too often we look only for affirmation of our own ideas rather than opening ourselv…”— Marty Baron, bigstory.ap.org
“Vocal intensity is frequently necessary for effective communication.”— Constance Congdon, amazon.com