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Dialogue Should Show The Relationships Among People.

The Story Must Spring From An Impression Or Perception Pressing Enough To Have Made The Writer Write. It Should Magnetize The Imagination And Give Pleasure.

Dialogue In Fiction Is What Characters Do To One Another.

The Importance To The Writer Of First Writing Must Be Out Of All Proportion Of The Actual Value Of What Is Written.

[a Writer] Should Try Not To Be Too Far, Personally, Below The Level Of His Work.