Then a dialogue writer comes and writes the dialogue in Hindi.

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Good writing creates a dialogue between writer and reader, with the imagined reader at moments questioning, criticizing, and sometimes, you hope, assenting.

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There is plenty of plot and dialogue in Splinter Cell, which was left to screen writer JT Petty, who had to follow Clancy's strict rules.

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Of these three, the one that can't really be taught to a mediocre writer is an ability to come up with sharp, believable dialogue, and this is where Affleck and Damon shine the brightest.

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The writer David Mamet (who shares script credit with Hilary Henkin) contributes ticklishly precise colloquial dialogue.

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