Character Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in…

— Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my…

— Anne Rice

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom…

— Neil Gaiman

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there.…

— Jane Yolen

“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a…

— John Gardner

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers…

— James Gunn

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and…

— Arthur Bradford

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how…

— Stephen Coonts

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

— Diane Johnson

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable…

— Takeshi Kitano

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

— Elizabeth Bowen