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Tag Name "Dialogue" (643)

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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
Wally Lamb
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Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.
Sol Stein
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Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.
Terry Zwigoff
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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
Edith Wharton
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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.
Kevin Hart
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.
Kim Smith
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Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.
Josip Novakovich
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Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.
William Monahan
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Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.
Mike Colter
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Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
Paulo Freire
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Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs
Jerome Stern
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Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.
James Salter
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Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
Sol Stein
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Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.
Tom Rickman
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Dialogue is a necessary evil.
Fred Zinnemann
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
Laini Taylor
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Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'
Jincy Willett
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
Anne Lamott
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