Educate Quote by Lynne Tillman

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any…

— Lynne Tillman

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote…

— Julia Cameron

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

— Derek Walcott

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing…

— Stephen King

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

I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more…

— Louis Auchincloss

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of…

— Peter Elbow

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller