Quotes About Dialogue

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.

Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

Every character has a back story. It's what makes them fully formed and believable. But resist the urge to describe your character's past with a data dump of everything they ever experienced since birth. The best way to reveal a character's back story is through the character's actions/dialogue on the page.

conversations, and not

Any cop would tell you that the best way to get someone to talk was to be quiet. There was a natural, human inclination to fill silence with noise.

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.