Dialogue Structure Quotes

I don't particularly enjoy those types of interviews, because I have a great respect for Senator McCain, and I hate the idea that our conversation became just two people sort of talking over each other, at one point.

I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.

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

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

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!

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

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

I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.