Michael Ross

- Author & Bibliophile

Ross’s Communicative Discoveries

Quotes from Literary Fiction on Personal Communications

Communicative Discoveries was intended as a follow-up to the fourth collection, “Ross’s Personal Discoveries”. Personal relations depend, for better or worse, on the efficacy or lack thereof in communications. Michael Ross’s collection explores the many ways in which our communications enhance or detract from our personal relations.

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Discover Interesting Quotes From The Collection

“The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for purpose of concealing our thoughts came to his mind”

– Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes

“I have yet to come across a really inspired liar who was not positively lyric on the virtue of truth-telling.”

– Gore Vidal Creation

“Few can resist the pleasure of saying something disagreeable, even to their nearest and dearest.”

– Louis Auchincloss “The Lotos Eater” in Tales of Yesteryear

Authors Included

Cesar Aira
Isabel Allende
Martin Amis
Louis Auchincloss
Donald Barthelme
Saul Bellow
Heinrich Boll
Paul Bowles
David Carkeet
John Cheever
Joseph Conrad
Don DeLillo
Anthony Doerr
Ivan Doig
T. S. Eliot
Richard Ford
George MacDonald Fraser
Carlos Fuentes
Jim Harrison
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Ernest Hemmingway
John Hersey
Kazuo Ishiguro
William Kotzwinkle
John Lanchester
Halldor Laxness
Brad Leithauser
Primo Levi
David Lodge
William Martin
W. Somerset Maugham
Dennis McFarland
Joseph Mitchell
V. S. Naipaul
Richard Powers
Philip Roth
Arundhati Roy
Richard Russo
Jose Saramago
Wallace Stegner
Robert Stone
Graham Swift
Paul Theroux
William Trevor
Anne Tyler
Gore Vidal
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Penn Warren
H. G. Wells
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder
P. G. Wodehouse
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Pocket-Sized Gift for Quote Lovers & Avid Readers

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