A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
A writer writes what other people only think.
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.