To master dialogue, description, subtext, plot, structure, character, time, point of view, beginnings, endings, theme and much besides is a Herculean labour, not made more appealing by the fact that you always – always – fail.
Add, moreover, that though she was a novelist, she was not primarily a realist, that she never mastered dialogue, that her books were ruminative, philosophical.
Despite such distractions, it only required a few takes for him to master his dialogue.
His command of the French language was probably unrivaled, and he was also an outstanding master of dialogue.
The author of the Costa prize-winning What Was Lost is a master of dialogue and social comedy and all her books make me ache with envy, but the idea of setting a novel around a regional TV news programme was particularly inspired.
Similarly, we should not assume that because young people in the Middle East mastered social networking for their revolution that they will master the dialogue needed to create the architecture of free institutions.
Then came Banchieri's "Ad un Dolce Usignolo," whose chromatic opening was beautifully in tune, followed by a comic master-servant dialogue by Lassus.
Ralph Fiennes has mastered Russian dialogue for the leading role, one of wan and fastidious melancholy – the kind of performance, in fact, with which he used to be identified, before recent comic flourishes in A Bigger Splash and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Masters of dialogue, their first film was supposed to be Gangster No 1, adapted from their own stage play, but creative differences with the producers prompted the pair to jump ship.
Scriptwriter Scott "Get Shorty" Frank plots an intricate, expert path through Elmore Leonard's twisty novel, and hangs on to the master's snappy dialogue.
Certainly, the aural, kinetic, and emotive directives in verse are more direct than prose, though, in the hands of a master of prose dialogue like Shaw or Chekhov, prose can also share these qualities.
