"One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying"

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I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.

— Salman Rushdie