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The Line Of Dialogue Belongs To The Character; The Verb Is The Writer Sticking His Nose In.

A Man Can Be In Two Different Places And He Will Be Two Different Men. Maybe If You Think Of More Places He Will Be More Men, But Two Is Enough For Now.

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Everyone Has His Own Sound. I'm Not Going To Presume How To Tell Anybody How To Write.

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.