Antiques Quote by Jincy Willett

I hate exposition and superfluous dialogue. I hate when dialogue is trying to explain or patronize or finger-point.

— Lynne Ramsay

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

— Graham Greene

“I carry an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips”

— Gillian Flynn

“Dialogue is just two monologues clashing.”

— Russell T. Davies

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

— Stephen Sondheim

“Exposition, after all, is telling and drama is showing.”

— John Yorke

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

— Taylor Sheridan

“• Parallel monologues are often what people offer each other when they are in the same place as another but not with another. •”

— Dr. Dennis Cogswell

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page…

— Terry Pratchett

“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.”

— Kory Stamper

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

“My writing is my internal dialogue—”

— R.A. Salvatore