Dialogue Is a Caricature to Speech

The way that you can tell is like, for example, you ask a normal person. So how's your day? They're like, yeah, it's fine. You're doing all right. Got attacked by a cow. And so they find the sentence that most aptly does that. Then they'll sort of embroider it and try to put some humor in it. Convey all that information. But if you basically have that speech as dialogue, what happens is later when you become a writer and you start doing dialogue,. It's kind of smug. If you do a dialogue that is based on somebody's speech being dialogue, eventually it becomes this highly stylized thing, which is fine