Elmore Leonard Quotes About Dialogue

Quotes about: Dialogue

• All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Confusing, Needs

• Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

  Elmore Leonard

  Reading, Writing, Lines

• I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Narrative, Jazz

• The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Character, Verbs

  Elmore Leonard (2007). “Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing”, William Morrow

• Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

  Elmore Leonard

  Verbs, Use, Said

  Elmore Leonard (2012). “10 Rules of Writing”, p.17, Hachette UK

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