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Writing Quotes by Sol Stein
- A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
- Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
- Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
- 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…
- 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…
- To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
- 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…
- A writer writes what other people only think.
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