"Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual……" — Elizabeth Bowen

"Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed."

Elizabeth Bowen

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