Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. - Andrew Bird

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin

Books full of inept dialogue tags get published all the time. Of course they do. Not all published writers are good writers. - Dean Koontz

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. - Jerome Stern

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. - Marian Keyes