Quotes About Direct speech

What this typographical distinction should make immediately apparent in the passage is the highly subsidiary role of narration in comparison to direct speech by the characters.

I always use the word 'houses of prostitution' in talking to Edith, Mrs. Cool." "I don't. I call 'em whorehouses," Bertha said acidly. "It's easier to say. It's more expressive, and it leaves no room for doubt.

The basic rules of male-female relations were imparted atmospherically in our family, no direct speech allowed.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

As an engineer he favored blunt speech