"Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used……" — Sol Stein
"Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual."
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13 Quotes by Sol Stein
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A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
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Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
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Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented…
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Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may…
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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories
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I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head…
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A writer writes what other people only think.
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Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to…
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The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to…
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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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