Character Quote by James Scott Bell

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language,…

— Dana Spiotta

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm…

— Richard Russo

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to…

— Eli Roth

I use voiceover just like I use dialogue. There's a way to give out information or give out insight to the character or give…

— Sam Esmail

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something…

— Laurie Graham

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know…

— Sam Shepard

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

— David Sedaris

I got good at trying to throw a voice on a character from the very beginning as opposed to like reading it and sitting…

— Kenan Thompson

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio