Top 1200 Writing Dialogue Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a fixed process, and I think it creates a very important challenge. It creates a way of writing that is, in a way, flatter or smooth, a surface conducive to release, to movement. And in this way, the form of writing gets delightfully melded with the process of the writing.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

I want to create an informed and respectful dialogue about the opportunities and challenges facing our veterans.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

I think it's always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.

I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

We are ready and open to a dialogue with all sides, all parties and all countries that respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Belarus.

Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be fools.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together. Writing a book is very hard, it's like writing 15 college term papers in a row, and you are just like, "when is going to end?" You can communicate so much more when you are writing a book, and you can go so much deeper.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

In 'Tom and Jerry,' there was hardly any dialogue at all. It was all action. It required a great many drawings to make.

I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

Corporate career is like my wife, and writing is my girlfriend. My priority is the first but enjoy doing the second, as I have taken to writing as a stress-beater.

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

It is a new trend, and it is here to stay. Unfortunately, if you cannot write punch dialogues, you are not treated as a dialogue writer.

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you’re not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else?

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.