Dictation Quotes

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.