Dialogue must contribute to the telling of the story said Victorian-era novelist Anthony Trollope more than one hundred years ago and his words have been a yardstick for writers ever since.
When it\'s wrong we also know-it jags on the ear like a badly tuned musical instrument." In "Shut Up " He Explained (the title comes from a Ring Lardner poke at the way some people overwrite), William Noble shows you how to write.
A more recent novelist, Stephen King, wrote, "When dialogue is right, we know.
Dialogue must contribute to the telling of the story said Victorian-era novelist Anthony Trollope more than one hundred years ago and his words have been a yardstick for writers ever since