Character Quote by James Salter

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he…

— Eudora Welty

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

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

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

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they…

— Colm Toibin

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

— Mike Colter

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

— Roddy Doyle

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the…

— Peter Senge