Writing Dialogue Quotes:

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

- Judy Blume

topic: Writing, Listening, Teach, Writing Dialogue

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

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

topic: Writing, Character, Preparation, Character Trait, Writing Dialogue

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

- Sefi Atta

source: Source: www.percontra.net

topic: Writing, Attention, Pay, Writing Music, Writing Dialogue

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

topic: Writing, Play, Way, Rebuttal, Contradicting

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

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Writing, Character, Creating, Transcribing, Writing Dialogue

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

- David Hare

topic: Writing, Crafts, Dialogue, Writing Dialogue

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

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

topic: Writing, Ideas, Caught, Writing Dialogue

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

- George Santayana

topic: Inspiration, Age, Youth, Limbo, Writing Dialogue

I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

- Tom Stoppard

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Writing, Enjoy, Dialogue, Writing Dialogue

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

- Jessica Hagedorn

topic: Writing, Thinking, Dialogue, Writing Dialogue, Cinematic

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

- David Bezmozgis

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

topic: Writing, Two, Trying, Writing Dialogue

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

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Writing, Class, Important, Writing Dialogue

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

topic: School, Kids, Writing, Writing Dialogue

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

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

topic: Writing, Thinking, Way, Screenwriting, Writing Dialogue

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

- Steve Buscemi

topic: Writing, Stories, Structure, Writing Dialogue