Character Quote by Peter Shaffer

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,…

— Terry Eagleton

The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.

— Joan Acocella

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I…

— Sergio Leone

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

— Paul Lieberstein

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

— Michael Giacchino