“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsWellsCharacterFeelingsMightJournalistListenersGood Writers Author:Louise Penny
“The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.” MenMindWellsSpiritualAttitudeTakenInfluenceHe ManListeningIronListenersCompelledReceptiveFree YourselfGrappling Author:Charles Dickens