Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument
in the novelist's repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the
strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "Action is character." George V. Higgins
said, "Dialogue is character." They were both right, because
dialogue is action. It comprises much, if not all, of the
clarifying drama of any novel. How much physical action can there
be in 300 pages, even in a crime novel or a thriller? And all
conflict, even physical, begins as dialogue. Hough explains how
dialogue can reveal a character's nature as well as his or her
defining impulses and emotions. He says there must be tension in
every colloquy in fiction, and shows the reader ways to achieve it.
Hough illustrates his precepts with examples from his own work and
from that of the best modern writers of dialogue, including Cormac
McCarthy, Kent Haruf, Joan Didion, Annie Proulx, Lee Smith, Elmore
Leonard, George V. Higgins, William Kennedy and Howard Frank
Mosher. He cites early 20th century writers who refined and
advanced dialogue as an art form: Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner,
Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan. Hough's novel Seen the Glory:
A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg was praised by Lee Smith as
containing "the best dialogue of the period I have ever read."
Hough on Dialogue will give writers and aspiring writers a fresh
look at one of the essential ingredients of their craft. Allworth
Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range
of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the
business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design,
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