Avoid Quote by Derek Walcott

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Kate Atkinson

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a pet subject…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

— Lee Klein

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must…

— Kenneth Tynan

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

— Harlan Ellison

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any…

— Lynne Tillman