Nobody Speaks The Truth When There's Something

What Must Novel Dialogue . . . Really Be And Do? It Must Be Pointed, Intentional, Relevant. It Must Crystallize Situation. It Must Express Character. It Must Advance Plot. During Dialogue, The Characters Confront One Another. The Confrontation Is In Itself An Occasion. Each One Of These Occasions, Throughout The Novel, Is Unique.

The Novel Does Not Simply Recount Experience, It Adds To Experience.

But To Be Quite Oneself One Must First Waste A Little Time.

Dialogue In Fiction Is What Characters Do To One Another.

But Complex People Are Never Certain That They Are Not Crooks, Never Certain Their Passports Are Quite In Order, And Are, Therefore, Unnerved By The Slightest Thing.