Wanted To Know

Certain authors seem to not know that it's not necessary to add a "said" every time there's a line of dialog. Certainly Hemingway didn't add a "said" after every quotation. But these furry authors apparently feel the need to do this everywhere. So we get a series of lines like these:

''"Doing what?" Apple Blossom wanted to know. "Working on the drive system," James replied. "Apparently the portside shaft keeps shutting down with a bearing overheat warning even though the bearings aren't really overheated. Factory technicians have been at it for weeks now." "Did they fix it?" Apple Blossom wanted to know. I kid you not. The paragraph above had two "wanted to know" lines, separated by one paragraph. Then it had this: "What do you think of our fine vessel?" Apple Blossom wanted to know. '' Source-"Witch of November"

I guess authors don't realize that you don't need to put the word "said" after every line where a character talks.

''“That wasn’t the problem,” Tauna informed hir. “He was the last one you’d want to kill.”

“I don’t understand,” Windsong admitted, the surprise and confusion obvious in hir voice and expression.

“He was the only buck in this herd,” Tauna explained, “so you just insured that there would be no more fawns from the does until they find another male.”

“Then which one were you going to kill?” Windsong wondered.''-Tales of the Folly – The Curse by Allen Fesler

I'd cite more examples, but the whole story is like that.