Ability Quote by Harold Innis

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

— Lee Klein

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

— Dalai Lama

Writing in another person's voice is a skill you have to develop when you're working on someone else's show. But if you can maintain…

— Nahnatchka Khan

“Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader’s judgments will agree with those implicit in…

— John Ciardi

I like how I write better than how I speak.

— Henry Rollins

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in…

— Willa Cather

“What a joke it is to read or hear—as I have read or heard more times than I can count—that writers ‘see more clearly’…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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

— Derek Walcott

“I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.”

— John Collier

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices…

— Gabriel Iglesias

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

— Donald Trump