Book Quote by Geoffrey Dutton

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

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

— Eddie Murphy

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

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

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest…

— Thornton Wilder

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set…

— Michael Craig-Martin

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

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion…

— John Fowles

“Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with…

— William Hazlitt

“The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a…

— Raymond Chandler

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone…

— Pablo Picasso