Quotes About Dialogue

That's how you know when you have thought too much-- when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing. It is also interesting that thoughts about fishing are often carried on in dialogue form where Hope and Fear—or, many times, two Fears—try to outweigh each other. One

Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. The unsuccessful interviewer—and I have sat in or listened to enough interviews to know, unfortunately, and disappointingly, how common they are—does not.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Ideally, you should be combining gesture, action, and expression with your dialogue.

A year could pass be­tween her ask­ing a ques­tion and my an­swer.

People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

And the moment she says hello, I wouldn't hang up. I'd say, 'Hi. What's happening? Tell me every little thing.

Use attribution to control the delivery of dialogue, creating the sort of dramatic pause an actor would insert. Otherwise, the reader will race through a line without realizing how it ought to be weighted.

Everyone should use three types of communication. Three parts description. Two parts instruction. One part onomatopoeia. Mix to taste.

It is only after the intellect collapses that any true communication exists.

Your characters have arms and legs and faces. Use them. Use attribution. Control the delivery of dialogue. Support it with actions, or negate it with actions.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

Kurogane: You just said Buu with your mouth, right? That isn't whistling. Fai: I don't know how to whistle.

When people ask me something, I now rarely answer directly.

But when a tree speaks to one, what is one to do? On

We'd like to talk to you, sir, if you don't mind," said the woman of the trio. "You see, we're a sort of delegation.

Anything interesting?" Joe asked.

Johnny Dandy starring Blake Headley and Patricia De Hammond had been running on Broadway at the Divinity Theater since Memorial Day weekend. Critics had meted their blows and yet. The dialogue and action were so shrouded in euphemism, so opaque in meaning and intention, alternately dull and

Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there. -Rumi

Are you saying I'm a liar? --No I'm just, like, speaking.