Able Quote by Billy Collins

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose…

— Billy Collins

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

You can never be me. You can only resemble.

— Lil Kim

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

— Salman Rushdie

There's never been a conscious decision to sound like anybody else. I can't mimic, I don't have that ability.

— KK

“Anything with human form will resemble someone you know.”

— Yoshitomo Nara

You are you, be yourself never imitate anybody.

— Cyril Chinwuba

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like…

— Damon Wayans, Jr

“always imitated, never duplicated, never new being me could be so complicated”

— Ashley Antoinette Snell

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

Whoever tries to imitate me is lost,

— Sergei Parajanov