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A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
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Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
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Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of…
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Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable…
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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories
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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…
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A writer writes what other people only think.
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Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension…
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The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually…
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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is…
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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories
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I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than…
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective…
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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