Art Quote by August Wilson

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

— August Wilson

I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time…

— Lena Waithe

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,'…

— Katori Hall

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand…

— Aaron Sorkin

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

— Stephen King

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

— Katori Hall

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

— Judy Blume

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an…

— John Francis Daley

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

— Stephen Dorff