When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and…

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish…

— Cheech Marin

I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from…

— David Bezmozgis

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

— Mark Pearce

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the…

— Isabelle Huppert

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without…

— David Remnick

You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn Russian.

— Till Lindemann

The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good enough to…

— Shannon Walker

if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it

— Richelle Mead

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how…

— John Grant

Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune…

— David Bezmozgis

At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there…

— Rebecca Serle

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing…

— Charlie Kaufman

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other…

— Sol Stein