Communication Quote by Robert Alter

“Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.”

— J.H. Glaze

“...although stories are about characters, they're mostly about "character". There's a difference.”

— Morgan Parker

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

“The writer's voice, the honesty and candor that is present in that voice, is what must be written upon the page.”

— Edmond Rostand

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

“Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.”

— Arap yegon chitabkoret

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“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 telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.”

— Sara Sheridan

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There is no index of character as sure as the voice.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

— Jerome Stern