A new hardcover edition of her first novel, Mr. Right , originally published by Viking in 1979, was pubished in 1999 by Permanent Press. Her M.A. in creative writing is from the University of Maryland and she has taught literature and writing in many settings. The thing about dialogue is that a lot of beginning writers either try to use it entirely or avoid it entirely. Both methods are wrong.
Dialogue focuses the reader on a given scene, because it forces the time to slow down.
At the same time, because it uses so little space, dialogue reads very quickly. This is close to dialogue in that it picks up the nuances of a person's speech, and reveals the person, but it is not the same. Dialogue is an exchange. It takes more than one person. Television is the opposite.