Dialogue Quotes · Page 13

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.

— Bill Duke

“Dialogue is a wolf in sheep’s clothing—often pretending to be woolly and vague, actually all teeth and meaning. Even”

— Margot Livesey

You need to understand the meaning of the dialogue to be able to convey it right. You need to know it to…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

— Alex Gibney

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

— Sol Stein

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

— Patrick Lencioni

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

— Malala Yousafzai

I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a…

— Katrina Kaif

Comics can really help kids become confident readers. They can teach kids the fundamentals - inference, tracking from left to right, learning…

— Jennifer L. Holm

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation…

— Vinessa Shaw

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters…

— Roger Ebert

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the…

— Pratibha Patil

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real…

— Stephen Coonts

I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been…

— Marlin Stutzman

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers…

— William O. Douglas

When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or…

— Roxane Gay

This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh…

— Grover Norquist

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take.…

— Jason Reitman

I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They…

— Douglas A. Martin

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities…

— Richard Rogers

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their…

— James Wolcott

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

— Ai Weiwei

We are of the opinion that we can achieve a great deal more by way of a dialogue than by a permanently…

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of…

— Anonymous

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

— Sol Stein

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

— Carlos Castaneda

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

— Henry Hopper

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not…

— Camryn Manheim

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can…

— Simon Mainwaring

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

— Craig T. Nelson

“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also…

— Kevin D. Williamson

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not…

— Evo Morales