Dialogue Quotes

741 Dialogue quotes by 593 unique authors

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of… — John Fowles
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. — Stephen King
Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. — Stephen King
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 embody… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and… — Ayn Rand
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts. — Sol Stein
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action. — Sol Stein
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms… — Sol Stein
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue. — John Steinbeck
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't… — Eudora Welty
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,… — Elwyn Brooks White
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core… — Tim McDonald
I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have… — Orson Scott Card
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component… — Jacques Chirac
Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a… — Jose Mujica
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. — Carl Jung

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