Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
Your blood coagulates beautifully.
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.