"Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds……" — Tom Clancy

"Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down."

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105 Quotes by Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is…
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into…
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need…
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why…
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of…
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on…
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his…
The good old days are now.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.…

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More Dialogue Quotes

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Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have… — Alec Baldwin
I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people… — Roseanne Barr
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted… — Dirk Benedict
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great… — Pope Benedict XVI
The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And… — Orlando Bloom
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common… — David Bohm
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our… — Madeleine Albright
When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music. — Nicolas Cage
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but… — Nicolas Cage
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two… — Truman Capote
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between… — George Carey

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