Better Quote by Jill Biden

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

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I…

— Teju Cole

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when…

— David Foster Wallace

My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear…

— Eudora Welty

For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book…

— China Mieville

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and…

— Eudora Welty

[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

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

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and -…

— Doug Stanton

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