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Don't let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there's something to say.

Don’t let characters talk pointlessly-”they only talk if there’s something to say.
– Diana Gabaldon

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  1. If there’s true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. – Diana Gabaldon
  2. Writers don’t kill characters. Characters kill characters. – MariaLisa deMora
  3. 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
  4. Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can’t we eat-eat-eat, and then talk? – Sarah J Maas
  5. Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about. – Austin Kleon
  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. As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. – Diana Gabaldon
  14. 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
  15. Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. – Diana Gabaldon
  16. Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. – Diana Gabaldon
  17. Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. – Diana Gabaldon
  18. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. – Diana Gabaldon
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness. – Diana Gabaldon
  22. 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
  23. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade? – Diana Gabaldon
  24. Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty. – Diana Gabaldon
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. …knowing what o’clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances. – Diana Gabaldon
  28. At the best of times, Father Bain’s face resembled a clenched fist. – Diana Gabaldon
  29. Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don’t hold anything back. – BA Gabrielle
  30. Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters. – Brian A McBride
  31. Let’s talk about love , Baby Let’s talk about our dreams …Just in your arms …Oh I’ll be safe it seems-¦ – Sami Abouzid
  32. Let us not talk about problems. Let us think and talk about solutions. – Debasish Mridha
  33. Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. – William Faulkner
  34. You can’t talk about ????ing in America, people say you’re dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that’s cool. – Richard Pryor
  35. I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say. – Rob Sheffield
  36. You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people! – Wyketha K Parkman
  37. The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. – Claudia Bakker
  38. Me to characters: talk to me people. – Buffy Andrews
  39. Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life. – Diana Rose Morcilla
  40. Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.) – Richelle E Goodrich

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