Been Quote by Colm Toibin

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

— James Salter

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I…

— Martin Landau

I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books…

— Charles Soule

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very…

— Richard Armitage

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

— Mike Colter

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he…

— Eudora Welty

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

— Jeff VanderMeer

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh