According to Burroway et al., It can play an important role in bringing characters to life in literature, by allowing them to voice their internal thoughts.
[citation needed] In their book Writing Fiction, Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French and Ned Stuckey-French say dialogue is a direct basic method of character presentation, which plays an essential role in bringing characters to life by voicing their internal thoughts.
[3]In The Craft of Fiction (1921), British essayist Percy Lubbock (1879–1965) wrote: The novelist may give the very words that were spoken by his characters, the dialogue, but of course he must interpose on his own account to let us know how the people appeared, and where they were, and what they were doing.
[13] The following excerpt from chapter two of the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens shows dialogue between three characters.
It has been on again to-day," Mr. Tulkinghorn replies, making one of his quiet bows to my Lady, who is on a sofa near the fire, shading her face with a hand-screen.