Attention Quote by Peter Elbow

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even…

— Paula Fox

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is…

— Jenny Han

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank,…

— Hisham Matar

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

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

In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it…

— George Saunders

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or…

— Meg Rosoff

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different…

— Errol Morris

“Here’s the truth: You won’t find your voice over time. I don’t believe that writers arrive at this strange destination called “their voice.” I…

— Mitch Joel

A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an…

— Patricia Lee Gauch

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what…

— Robert Pinsky