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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

I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ... — John Geddes

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

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. — Steve Buscemi

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

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures. — Giles Foden

Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat. — Chuck Wendig

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

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein

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

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. — Aaron Sorkin

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe it's because I talk too much! — Julia Quinn

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. — Rose Tremain

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue. — Jim Parsons

All the information you need can be given in dialogue. — Elmore Leonard

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King

Dialogue is a necessary evil. — Fred Zinnemann

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it. — Judy Blume

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein

Dialogue should show the relationships among people. — Elizabeth Bowen

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader. — Neil Cross

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

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts. — Sol Stein

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

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. — David Hare

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

This continuous monologue that seeks to become a dialogue... (Zoltan Galos) — Z.J. Galos

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. — Stephen King

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue. — David Benioff