Always trying Quote by Dean Koontz

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

— Sheila Heti

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

— Kate Atkinson

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

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

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

— Lee Klein

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will…

— Liz Tuccillo

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

— Megan McCafferty

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even…

— Paula Fox

“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way…

— Anne Rice