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If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there-”take it out or change it.

If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there-”take it out or change it.
– Diana Gabaldon

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  1. Dialogue doesn’t take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. – Diana Gabaldon
  2. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  3. At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
  4. Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say. – Diana Gabaldon
  5. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible. – Bryant McGill
  6. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. – Diana Gabaldon
  7. Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. – Diana Gabaldon
  8. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
  9. You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,- I said softly, at last. -œSo beautiful, you break my heart. – Diana Gabaldon
  10. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  11. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids – Diana Gabaldon
  12. You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it’s better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. – Diana Gabaldon
  13. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  14. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  15. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  18. I’ve seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled – yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed. – Diana Gabaldon
  20. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  21. The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? – Diana Gabaldon
  22. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
  23. Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
  24. Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. ‘The grave’s a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. – Diana Gabaldon
  26. …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
  27. The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right. – Vikas Swarup
  28. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
  29. She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
  30. If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why),that is exactly where you will end up. – Christopher Babson
  31. Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  32. Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. – Anne Carson
  33. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life. – Oli Anderson
  34. If you don’t know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. – Christopher Babson
  35. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  36. Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do? – Laura Dave
  37. Why is it they say you always hurt the ones you love? Because you know exactly how to do it. – Eileen Cook
  38. His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation. – Rudyard Kipling
  39. Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
  40. Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face. – Amit Kalantri

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