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<\/p>\nGood writers do not litter their sentences with adverbial garbage. They do not hold up signs reading \u201claughter!\u201d or \u201capplause!\u201d The content of dialogue ought to suggest the mood.<\/p>\n
\u2013 –James J. Kilpatrick<\/p>\n
Nouns, verbs, are the workhorses of language. Especially in dialogue, don\u2019t say, \u201cshe said mincingly,\u201d or \u201che said boisterously.\u201d Just say, \u201che said, she said.\u201d<\/p>\n
— –John P. Marquand<\/p>\n
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Dialogue which does not move the story along, or add to the mood of the story, or have an easily definable reason for being there at all (such as to establish important characterization), should be considered superfluous and therefore cut.<\/p>\n
— \u2013 Bill Pronzini<\/p>\n
Remember that you should be able to identify each character by what he or she says. Each one must sound different from the others. And they should not all sound like you.<\/p>\n
— \u2013 Anne Lamott<\/p>\n
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn\u2019t know but the other character does know.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2013 Eudora Welty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good writers do not litter their sentences with adverbial garbage. They do not hold up signs reading \u201claughter!\u201d or \u201capplause!\u201d The content of dialogue ought to suggest the mood. \u2013 –James J. Kilpatrick Nouns, verbs, are the workhorses of language. Especially in dialogue, don\u2019t say, \u201cshe said mincingly,\u201d or \u201che said boisterously.\u201d Just say, \u201che […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n