Dialogue Quotes · Page 15

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

— Tom Stoppard

I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural…

— Stephen Dorff

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at…

— Vivek Shraya

We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish…

— Vladimir Putin

Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you…

— Nick Jonas

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the…

— Usher

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

— Bashar al-Assad

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other…

— Sally Field

The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue…

— Geoffrey Dutton

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and…

— Paul Rusconi

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape…

— John B. Goodenough

Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more…

— Linda Lingle

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the…

— N. Katherine Hayles

“[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly…

— Charles Taylor

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and…

— Vladimir Putin

I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much…

— Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

“Anyone who has lived here for long enough has seen it all before: opposing sides of the political spectrum ferociously criticising each…

— Tobias Jones

What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How…

— Clive James

Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King…

— Christopher Plummer

Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and…

— Al Gore

“Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille,…

— Gillian Flynn

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a…

— Herbie Hancock

We don't want open doors where we can beg; we want open doors because there is a serious dialogue.

— Miguel Diaz-Canel

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so…

— Richard Russo

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

— Truman Capote

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenager.

— Lucas Hedges

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual…

— Noel Fisher

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

— James Franco

I couldn't be happier to have found a home at Dialogue Books for my debut novel 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius…

— Paterson Joseph

I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

“Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.”

— Oli Anderson

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

— David Bezmozgis