Advice please..

[Orrex]

5. Heh. That also depends.

He's a favorite target of criticism, but I like Hemingway's dialogue, as well as Raymond Carver. Charles Bukowski is terrific in a gritty, skid-row kind of way, and Cormac McCarthy is very good when it comes to writing dialects.

Jane Smiley is quite good, as is Joyce Carol Oates.


I'm not fond of overtly cinematic writers like Michael Crichton or Tom Clancy, but since they tend to write with an eye toward the finished, onscreen product, their dialogue is often fairly strong.