Character Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image “Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Communication Crafts Dialogue Fiction
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 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
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
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
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character. — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in a romance novel serves a larger purpose than simply to provide exposition and demonstrate character. What is said between the hero and… — Linda Barlow and Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are dialogue writers for a movie, there is a script to be followed... whatever my character says is not a reflection on my… — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
