Anything Quote by Tana French

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

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

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

— Wally Lamb

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

— Jerome Stern

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers…

— Laini Taylor

There is no dialogue except with weapons.

— Osama bin Laden

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne