Communication Quote by Bruce Campbell

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

— Bruce Campbell

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone…

— Pablo Picasso

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest…

— Thornton Wilder

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has…

— Wesley Morris

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

— Herbert Spencer

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal…

— James Jones

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

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

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

— Fay Weldon