Dialogue Writing Quotes
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Dialogue Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
— George Lucas
For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.
— Sefi Atta
If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there - take it out or change it.
— Diana Gabaldon
All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
— Elizabeth Bowen
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.
— Kenneth Lonergan
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
— Tom Clancy
If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.
— Quentin Tarantino
Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.
— Jeff VanderMeer
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
— John Steinbeck
I love writing Scottish dialogue.
— John Niven
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.
— Thomas Lennon
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.
— David Bezmozgis
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
— David Nicholls
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.
— Marian Keyes
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
— Jessica Hagedorn
As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag.
— Diana Gabaldon
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
— Elmore Leonard
Dialogue is a necessary evil.
— Fred Zinnemann
Dialogue should show the relationships among people.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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 love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
— David Bezmozgis
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
— Sol Stein
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
— Etgar Keret
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
— Maria Semple
Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
— Diana Gabaldon
The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!
— Richard Greenberg
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
— Elmore Leonard
Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.
— Stephen King
