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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

Anne Lamott
dialect being-positive writing

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

Brion James
dialect done jobs

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Callan McAuliffe
dialect accents respectable

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Chinua Achebe
dialect want writing

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

Christopher Moore
dialect hip-hop way

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

Criss Jami
dialect philosophical style

English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

Daniel Kehlmann
dialect literature use
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and... by David Crystal

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

David Crystal
dialect kaleidoscope style

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

David Foster Wallace
dialect reform facts

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

David Tang
dialect chinese nine
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one shoul... by David Sedaris

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

David Sedaris
dialect writing trying

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive, formalised -- and ridiculous. Phrases, words, associations of sentences spin themselves out automatically, but have no effect: they have lost their power, their energy.

Doris Lessing
dialect development association
So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have... by Emily Carr

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Emily Carr
dialect silence sound

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Emily Carr
dialect different half

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

Geoff Zanelli
dialect care culture

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

Glenn Quinn
dialect use thinking
He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect. by Harry Reid

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

Harry Reid
dialect dumb light

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

Ishmael Beah
dialect three expression
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some... by Jerry Garcia

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Jerry Garcia
dialect powerful thinking
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a d... by Jodi Picoult

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Jodi Picoult
dialect different loss
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