Writing Dialogue Quotes

• Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Listening, Teach

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• There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Character, Preparation

  "Exploring Things: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson On 'Anomalisa'". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.rogerebert.com. December 29, 2015.

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• For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Way

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Writing, Character, Creating

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

  David Hare

  Writing, Crafts, Dialogue

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• I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Writing, Ideas, Caught

  "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Young Friends

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• I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Enjoy, Dialogue

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Thinking, Dialogue

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• When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

  David Bezmozgis

  Writing, Two, Trying

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

  Thomas Lennon

  Writing, Class, Important

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue." So that's how I got into it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

  Steve Buscemi

  Writing, Stories, Structure

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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