Monologue Quotes

“Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it. They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue."Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue."But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system."I am definitely talking to a girl from Google. "So what's the next upgrade?""It's already happening," she says. "There are all these things you can do, and it's like you're in more than one place at one time, and it's totally normal. I mean, look around."I swivel my head, and I see what she wants me to see: dozens of people sitting at tiny tables, all learning into phones showing them places that don't exist and yet are somehow more interesting...”

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.”

“There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.”

“We struggle in life because our inner monologue prays....my will be done.”

“Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.”

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.”

“Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.”

“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.”