Character Quote by Paul Lieberstein

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

— Colleen McCullough

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

— Nell Freudenberger

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is…

— Vikram Seth

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

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 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 really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has…

— Wesley Morris

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or…

— Douglas Wood