Writing Voice Quotes

Hold your pen and spare your voice. — Dorothy Parker

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. — Anthony Davis

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

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down! — Dave Attell

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

Let's agree then ... if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice. — Avi

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else. — Romeo Santos

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

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first.So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice. — Rick Moody

Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that. — Amy Tan

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head. — Philip Gerard

Bells ringing with no sound
Laughter 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

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. — Stephen King

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink. — Rachel L. Schade

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice. — Mike O'Brien

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

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear. — John Updike

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

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice. — Sheila Bender

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

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up. — Todd Newton

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone ... — John Geddes

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

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. — Galina Vishnevskaya

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

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice. — Pen Densham

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka

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 write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view. — Gore Vidal

If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start. — Sam Shepard

Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if — Margaret Atwood

I started writing more with my voice in mind. — Lucinda Williams

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice. — Benmont Tench

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

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

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

Writing is the painting of the voice. — Voltaire

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

A pen transmits the voice of the soul. — Fennel Hudson

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious. — Terry Tempest Williams

Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki — Julia Suzuki

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice. — Raymond E. Feist

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large. — Sue Monk Kidd

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine. — Jason Reitman

Developing your voice takes ...
time and practice. — Darynda Jones

Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters. — Kate Morton

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. — Kristen Lamb

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others. — Anasia Nicole Hixon

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' — Harlan Coben

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 started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. — Atom Egoyan

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart. — Quentin Tarantino

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you. — Marty Rubin

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible — Mark Twain

I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it. — Anthony Jeselnik

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? — Virginia Woolf

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

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

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer ... — John Geddes

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter's evening. — Truman Capote

Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes

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 was in its origin, the voice of an absent person. — Sigmund Freud

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 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

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style. — Brooke Fraser

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence ... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice. — Chris Terrio

Writing is an ever learning experience of voice and thought. — J. Hale Turner

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice. — Carla H. Krueger

I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak. — Buffy Andrews

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction. — Jen Lancaster

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover. — Sam Tsui

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. — Sara Zarr

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind. — Alex Flinn

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

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice. — Simone Elkeles

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it. — Holly Lisle

All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything! — Samuel Colbran