About Quote by Colson Whitehead

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

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just…

— James Scott Bell

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

— Henry Miller

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

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and…

— Eudora Welty

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…

— Sam Shepard

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for…

— Ru Freeman

I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone…

— T.C. Boyle

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,

— Andrea Hirata

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about…

— J. A. Jance

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might…

— Robin Wasserman

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things…

— Sara Zarr