The Craft Of The Novelist Does Lie

All Good Dialogue Perhaps Deals With Something Unprecedented.

A Bowen, In The First Place, Made Bowen's Court. Since Then, With A Rather Alarming Sureness, Bowen's Court Has Made All The Succeeding Bowens.

The Silence Of A Shut Park Does Not Sound Like Country Silence: It Is Tense And Confined.

Where Would The Irish Be Without Someone To Be Irish At?

Each Piece Of Dialogue Must Be "something Happening". . .the "amusing" For Its Own Sake Should Above All Be Censored. . .the Functional Use Of Dialogue For The Plot Must Be The First Thing In The Writer's Mind. Where Functional Usefulness Cannot Be Established, Dialogue Must Be Left Out.