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Hold your pen and spare your voice.
— Dorothy Parker
Something wrong?""No." David's voice was low and full of emotion. "I just wanted to look at you."
"What do you see?"
"My future. — Shira Anthony
I have a face for radio and a voice for writing.
— Grant McLachlan
What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice without all voices.
— Kim Stafford
Writers block to me is all the voices in your head trying to tune out the one voice that has something worthy say.
— Shanet Outing
A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
— Margaret Atwood
Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.
— Lawrence Weschler
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
— Teresa Mummert
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
— Ann Patchett
If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
— Fennel Hudson
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
— Cheryl Strayed
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
— Randy Pausch
I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
— Harry Treadaway
Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.
— Amy Tan
Bells ringing with no soundLaughter with no voice
Happiness lost without being found
Making love with no noise — T. Grassan
Voice is really about letting your characters loose.
— C.S. Lakin
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
— Quentin Tarantino
Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.
— Anasia Nicole Hixon
Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.
— Anthony Jeselnik
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
— Armando Iannucci
Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.
— Lenora Champagne
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
— Mo Yan
Writing is an ever learning experience of voice and thought.
— J. Hale Turner
All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything!
— Samuel Colbran
I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.
— Simone Elkeles
Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.
— Catie Curtis
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
— Sam Tsui
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
— Jen Lancaster
I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.
— Buffy Andrews
When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
— Carla H. Krueger
Writers searching for their voice: Whatever you're afraid to say, whatever burns inside you, say it with conviction. You don't need a class for that.
— Gregor Collins
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.
— Brooke Fraser
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
— William Kittredge
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
— Sigmund Freud
Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.
— Jody Lynn Nye
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
— Roland Barthes
What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter's evening.
— Truman Capote
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
— Nell Freudenberger
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
— Erica Jong
If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'
— Carlos Santana
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
— Franz Kafka
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.
— Pen Densham
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets ... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
— Jack Prelutsky
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
— Galina Vishnevskaya
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
— Scott Bradfield
Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if
— Margaret Atwood
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
— Honore De Balzac
We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
— Sheila Bender
Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
— Gina Barreca
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
— Stanley Cavell
The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.
— Rachel L. Schade
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
— Billy Wilder
A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.
— Terry Tempest Williams
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
— Ernest Cline
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
— Harlan Coben
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters.
— Kate Morton
Developing your voice takes ... time and practice. — Darynda Jones
My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
— Jason Reitman
Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.
— Raymond E. Feist
Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki
— Julia Suzuki
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.
— Atom Egoyan
A pen transmits the voice of the soul.
— Fennel Hudson
I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.
— Zooey Deschanel
Writing is the painting of the voice.
— Voltaire
A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story, not by the collector.
— Karen Jones Gowen
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
— Rupert Sheldrake
I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
— Paul McCartney
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
— Lucinda Williams