Even if you've got an entire paragraph of dialogue, you still wouldn't capitalize "he said" afterward.
And if you've got something like:
He said, "An entire paragraph of dialogue!" and walked out the door.
You still wouldn't need to put a capital, so long as what's afterward is part of the same sentence as what came before your dialogue. Though you might not want to construct a sentence this way if you know you have a large speech coming, since your reader might have forgotten the beginning of the sentence by the time they get to the other end of it.
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Date: 2010-09-05 08:29 pm (UTC)And if you've got something like:
He said, "An entire paragraph of dialogue!" and walked out the door.
You still wouldn't need to put a capital, so long as what's afterward is part of the same sentence as what came before your dialogue. Though you might not want to construct a sentence this way if you know you have a large speech coming, since your reader might have forgotten the beginning of the sentence by the time they get to the other end of it.