S39E9 – Using Subtext in Dialogue
Words have the capacity for deception. They’re all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They’re tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. – Andrew Bird
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S22E8 – K/D Ratio: Beats in Dialogue
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – Benjamin Franklin
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S20E3 – Myth Three: Said is Dead
Books full of inept dialogue tags get published all the time. Of course they do. Not all published writers are good writers. – Dean Koontz
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S13E1 – The Solution to Awkward Dialogue
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. – Jerome Stern
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S6E1 – Writing Dialogue
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life’s dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. – Marian Keyes
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