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All the principles of storytelling combine into the art of dialogue. Dialogue should be changeful, it should want something, it should drip with personality and point of view, and it should operate on the two story levels – both conscious and subconscious.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Dialogue is the collective way of opening up judgments and assumptions.
David Bohm • On Dialogue
Dialogue is not conversation.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Sustained Dialogue.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Dialogue is the most pictorial component of ordinary prose.* Even veteran writers have to work on the mechanics of dialogue. A good conversation on the page can look like a tennis match. One swings. The other swings back. No speaker attributions. Just the ball of dialogue going back and forth.