Answers Quote by Philip Gerard

Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create…

— Philip Gerard

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

— Italo Calvino

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might…

— Robin Wasserman

“To the average person, voices in your head may be worrisome, especially if you answer them out loud, but to a writer, these voices…

— Megan Denby

“Every story needs a voice to tell it though, or it goes unheard. So I have to try. I still have enough faith left…

— Dexter Palmer

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to…

— Sara Shepard

I think the voice can carry a story.

— Tom Barbash

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

— Marie Lu

In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the ways that…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might…

— Robin Wasserman

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

— Robert Hunter