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Language Quotes by Sol Stein
- Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
- 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…
- I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a…
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