Books Quote by Sol Stein Download Open image “A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.” — Sol Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Communication Dialogue Emotion Few words Language Reader Writing
Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.” — Jenny Hayworth Copy Share Image
If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory… — David Perry Copy Share Image
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive. — Tommy Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to colleagues—in which… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
