Drawing and writing

Two strangers exchange identifying openings.
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Taylor: What do you do?
Sarah: I draw.
Taylor: And why do you draw?
Sarah: It makes me think about what I see.
Taylor: So you don't draw for others, you draw for yourself?
Sarah: Sometimes I draw for others. I teach drawing. But what do you do?
Taylor: I think, I write.
Sarah: As in I think, then I write? Or as in you write but you are not sure if this is what you do?
Taylor: I like to think surprising thoughts and then surprise readers with them.
Sarah: So thought is a kind of drawing for you through which you interpret what you see?
Taylor: A graphic image. And you have reminded me that not everything I think might be correct.
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Man of Letters

Silas, who reads and writes letters for people who cannot read and write, cannot make head or tail of a letter from America brought to him by Grimble.

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Silas: I’m not sure what it means…

Grimble: Come on, what does it say?

Silas: Well, I’d tell you if I could understand it.

Grimble: One moment you’re telling me you can read but next moment you say you can’t?

Silas: It’s not that. I understand the words, but I don’t understand his meaning.

Grimble: Ah, you mean, it was written by a fellow what can’t write?

Silas: Well, he has strung some words together but they're all in a tangle. Look, give me a halfpenny and I’ll tell you what I think he means.

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