10-second review: “With the Development and popularity of movies and later of television, modern prose has been affected by screen drama. One brief trip to the library will reveal the increase in the percent of dialogue in the written story, an increase that has followed the growth of films.”
Quote: “The reader is inclined to shun long narrative or descriptive passages and even to skip those parts lacking dialogue.” p. 22.
Source: “Dialogue That Is Music.” Robert O’Neil Bristow. The Writer (November 1973), pp. 21-22; 44. The Writer is a magazine by writers for writers.
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