"My ideas flow so rapidly that I..." - Quote by Jane Austen
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
More by Jane Austen
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”
More on Communication
“The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.”
“There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.”
“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”
More on Writing
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”
“Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”