Best Dialogue Writers

State why and give an example if possible.

Plato.

Hemingway.
1. Verisimilitude.
2. Subtle word play.
3. No bullshit.
4. Uses line breaks/formatting to distort time.

Ex: Hills Like White Elephants.

Salinger, no doubt about it

Not gonna dig for examples, sorry

>R.A Lafferty
"Just how often do you have to make a total fool of yourself, Foley?" Tankersley asked him sharply. Tankersley was a kind man, but he had a voice like a whip.
"An enterprising reporter should do it at least once a week, sir, or he isn't covering the ground," Fred Foley said seriously.
"You do it oftener," said Tankersley. "Why is your nose bleeding, Foley?''
"I do it oftener because I'm more enterprising than your other reporters. Oh, my nose bleeds every time I
get caught a good one there."

>Jack Vance
"If you will notice," said Cugel, "Bunderwal shows the drooping nostrils which indicate an infallible tendency toward sea-sickness."
"Cugel is a man of discernment!" declared Bunderwal. "I would rate him an applicant of fair to good quality, and I urge you to ignore his long spatulate fingers which I last noticed on Larkin the baby-stealer. There is a significant difference between the two: Larkin has been hanged and Cugel has not been hanged."

Hemingway, huh? Well, since his strongest point clearly isn't his prose, perhaps that led to me overlooking his dialogue.

He was a fraud.

>Well, since his strongest point clearly isn't his prose
Brainlet who can only enjoy long sentences detected

Dostoevsky is by far the best dialogue writer that I've come across. All of his characters come to life, and mostly through dialogue since he was writing drama.

I'm not convinced that Jack Vance example is any good.
No one talks like that.