George Bernard Shaw Quote by David Kahn

“At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out of Water.'…

— Jeannette Walls

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've…

— Jez Butterworth

The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what…

— Ryan North

“I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I…

— Eva Hoffman

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved…

— Julian Jaynes

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon,…

— Walt Whitman

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

— Gaston Bachelard

You can do a lot of impromptu in dubbing. You can bring in different characters and different accents.

— Javed Jaffrey