Anything Quote by David Nicholls

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

— Steve Buscemi

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

— Tom Stoppard

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

— Stephen King

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so…

— Zoe Kazan

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings…

— Emma Healey