Air Quote by Sarah Lancashire

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I…

— Norman Lock

When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall…

— Park Chan-wook

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in…

— Donna Mills

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

— Jennifer Weiner

There's nothing better than voicing a character. You don't have to worry about what you're wearing; you've got the script in front of you,…

— Jane Lynch

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on…

— Chris Lilley

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my…

— Stewart O'Nan

Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All your writers…

— Buster Keaton

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest