Character Quote by Diane Johnson Download Open image “In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.” — Diane Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Communication Crafts Dialogue Thinking
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 Copy Share Image
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of? — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Well, their piety is more evolved,” said Mrs. Pace. “In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.” — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“It didn't seem fair that you could not prevent being the object of other people's emotions, you were not safe from their hate--or from… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
