Here are the main rules for writing dialogue:
- Each speaker gets a new paragraph. ...
- Each paragraph is indented. ...
- Punctuation for what's said goes inside the quotation marks. ...
- Long speeches with several paragraphs don't have end quotations. ...
- Use single quotes if the person speaking is quoting someone else.
Can we write dialogue in a story?
Dialogue writing is essential to the art of storytelling. In real life, we learn about other people through the ideas they communicate and the words they use to share those ideas; in story writing, it's much the same.