"And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog."
- Connie Brockway
"I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though,- those'll fool 'em. I supposed I hoped the European locals' conversation ..."
- Doug Mack
"The Lord of Rags and Tatters."
- Megan Whalen Turner
"Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer."
- Martin Buber
"The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the whole piece of bread when that is what they are asking for, in order ..."
- Shannon L. Alder
"Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you."
- Michael J. Kannengieser
"I call the right axe Sorrow," she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart."
- Lev Grossman