Able Quote by Nathan Englander

In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I…

— Norman Lock

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

— Greg Iles

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

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

I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists. But that's…

— David Sedaris

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

— Maria Bamford

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in…

— Khaled Hosseini

“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a pet subject…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

— Manuel Puig

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of…

— Victor LaValle