Big Quote by Anne Enright

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever…

— Lynne Tillman

“To the average person, voices in your head may be worrisome, especially if you answer them out loud, but to a writer, these voices…

— Megan Denby

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a…

— Robert McKee

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the…

— Truman Capote

I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

— Lydia Davis

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices…

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

— Amy Adams

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words…

— Gin Wigmore

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is…

— Wilbur Smith

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as…

— Ayana Mathis

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

— Colson Whitehead

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

— Greg Iles