Character Quote by Nell Freudenberger

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

— Amy Adams

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

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

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a…

— Guy Ritchie

As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try…

— Omari Hardwick

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

— William S. Burroughs

Writing in another person's voice is a skill you have to develop when you're working on someone else's show. But if you can maintain…

— Nahnatchka Khan

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really…

— Todd Phillips

My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.

— Kristian Bush

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

— Rebecca Hall

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