Character Quote by Anne Lamott

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

— James Salter

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he…

— Eudora Welty

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

— Jeff VanderMeer

“i believe that true character gets revealed in actions, not in what someone says about him or herself.”

— Morgan Parker

“These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing, a most…

— Mark Twain

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a…

— Will Poulter

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that…

— Michel Hazanavicius