: Re: Is a novel less credible if the dialogues are too perfect? I always find myself trying to make dialogues perfect. For example, the perfect advice, the perfect punch line, the perfect joke or

I think allowing your characters to share these perfect quips would be helpful.

Personally, I love when characters can dish it out as well as take it. I don't feel like it's unreal. If anything, it makes more sense for witty people to hang out with other witty people. You start to develop chemistry.

If you have just one character who gets all the good lines, I think you'll have to work to make sure that people are going to really LIKE that character or s/he is going to get annoying.

Realize that the story world is not real world. We don't want to read how people really talk. We want something more. Hyper-reality. Otherwise we'd just go talk to our neighbors.

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