External Speech

Famous quotes containing the words external and/or speech:

    “No real “vital” character in fiction is altogether a conscious construction of the author. On the contrary, it may be a sort of parasitic growth upon the author’s personality, developing by internal necessity as much as by external addition.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)