Blank Quote by Ayn Rand

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

I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books…

— Charles Soule

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

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

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because…

— Julia Quinn

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

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

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

— Stephen King

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines.…

— Angela Lansbury

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry