Character Quote by Lauren Grodstein

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an…

— John Francis Daley

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going…

— John Francis Daley

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other…

— Sol Stein

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing…

— Charlie Kaufman

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another…

— Charles Yu

Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle…

— Ishmael Reed

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace…

— Peter Shaffer

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I…

— Pete Seeger

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless…

— Steve Vai