Adjustment Quote by Jerome Stern

“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people communicate, they…

— Jerome Stern

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration…

— Catherine Brady

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

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for…

— Catherine Brady

I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in…

— Erik Larson

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that…

— Sol Stein

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

— Sol Stein

“There were quotations that were openly and reverently emphasized as such, or that were half-hidden, completely hidden, half-conscious, unconscious, correct, intentionally distorted, unintentionally distorted,…

— Mikhail Bakthin

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— 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

I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and…

— Tana French

“Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue,…

— Oli Anderson