Angelou Quote by Dirk Benedict

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

— Dee Rees

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was…

— Tim Lebbon

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one…

— Natalya Neidhart

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

— Kate Atkinson

I think once I began to trust myself as a writer, I began to be seen as a writer.

— Natasha Rothwell

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

— Lee Klein

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about.

— Bill Ward

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is…

— Vikram Seth

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

— PJ Harvey

I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order…

— Sissy Spacek

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to…

— Rodney Crowell

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

— Gene Stratton-Porter