I never intended for the dash dialogue format to be a house style. I was, and still am, a very poor typist. When I was writingCaught Stealing, for my own entertainment, my fingers kept stumbling over the shift and quotation mark keys. So I stopped using them. I’d been reading a great deal of Cormac McCarthy and I liked the way his dialogue rolled down the page, but I did sometimes become confused when it switched back and forth between dialogue and short bursts of prose. I decided I’d do some...
Published on July 12, 2013 12:11