Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
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.
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
A writer writes what other people only think.
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories