Quotes About Dialogue

Ah,' said Speaker. 'There's so much that we don't understand. And so much that you don't understand. We should tell each other more.

I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

So, the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Don't ever ask questions that can only be answered one way, no matter what the truthful answer might be.

I'm not a character in one of your novels." "More's the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. 

To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

He rang off, pocketed the disk

book is written in question-and-answer style with a minimum of professional jargon.

If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.

How're you doin Ed Tom. I aint braggin.

It was a belated realization to have, but it occurred to me that perhaps this was how grown-up conversations worked—not that your communication didn't falter, but that you both made good-faith attempts to rectify things after it had.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You're writing that down? Has the interview started?" Lee, whenever you're talking to a reporter, you're being interviewed.

No, we were still in the same room, both of us having to breathe and speak in the aftermath of her wink.

When they left the bar, before parting ways in Port Authority, they stood on the corner of Forty-second Street and Seventh Avenue and continued talking; there were between them always an infinite number of subjects to be addressed and dissected, mulled over and mocked and revised.

This was the problem with me - I didn't know how to talk to people without asking them questions. Some people seemed to find me peculiar and some people were so happy to discuss themselves that they didn't even notice, but either way, it made conversation draining. While the other person's mouth moved, I'd try to think of the next thing to ask.

Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned interchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.