Books Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“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

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a…

— Elizabeth George

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

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

— Stephen King

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

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

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of…

— Elizabeth Bowen

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there…

— Don DeLillo

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