"Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes."

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Source : Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.110, St. Martin's Press

Sol Stein

#Writing Quotes #Views Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.”
“I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.”

Source : "Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator". www.latimes.com. February 11, 2013.
“I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.”
“I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.”
“I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who simply couldn't accept the fact that I was doing something that they perceived as being a radical departure from Avenue Q.”
“There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.”
“Instead of asking "whatâ€™s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?”
“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

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