Addresses Quote by Don DeLillo

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

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

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because…

— Julia Quinn

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

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening…

— Rick Alverson

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

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

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point…

— Ayn Rand

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors…

— Ursula K. Le Guin