House Quote by Robert Frost

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

— Vivek Shraya

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First…

— Donald Margulies

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it…

— Peter Elbow

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a…

— Patrick deWitt

Writing is a communication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Sefi Atta

What is reading but silent conversation?

— Anonymous

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

— John Updike

“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers,…

— Lenora Champagne

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

— Brian Azzarello