Book Quote by Paul Auster

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening…

— Rick Alverson

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there…

— Don DeLillo

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not…

— Wallace Shawn

“A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.”

— Bonta

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

— Eddie Murphy

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

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti