
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