Bourne Quote by Julia Stiles

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before,…

— Julia Stiles

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

“Dialogue in a romance novel serves a larger purpose than simply to provide exposition and demonstrate character. What is said between the hero and…

— Linda Barlow and Jayne Ann Krentz

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

— Anne Lamott

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

— Sol Stein

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a…

— Terence McKenna

There is no dialogue except with weapons.

— Osama bin Laden

“We enter into a relationship with any text we hear or read, like the relationship with a friend, a lover, or an enemy. A…

— Lee A. Siegel