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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.”

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Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“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.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“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.”

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

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Author:David Bezmozgis

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Lennon

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

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Author:David Hare

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

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Author:Sefi Atta

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“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.”

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Author:Lauren Grodstein

“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.”

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Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation

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

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Author:Judy Blume

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

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“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.”

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Author:David Benioff

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

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Author:Jessica Hagedorn