Pages Quote by Philip Gerard Download Open image “You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.” — Philip Gerard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pages Voice Writing
Without the little voice in your head you wouldn't be able to read this. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Without that little voice in your head you wouldnt be able to read this. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.” — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art:… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these… — William McKeen Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image