Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Dialogue

Quotes about: Dialogue

• Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Years, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

• I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Typewriters, Hands

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Speech, Illusion

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