Casts Quote by Stephen King

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

— Wally Lamb

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of…

— Victor LaValle

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that…

— Cedric Hardwicke

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal…

— E. O. Wilson

When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think…

— James Hong

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

— Teddy Wayne

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones