Book Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

— Sheila Heti

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write…

— Nahnatchka Khan

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm…

— Sheila Heti

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

— Lee Klein

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

[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

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

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

— Kate Atkinson

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

— Stanley Cavell

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

— Amy Adams