Books Quote by Robin Wasserman

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

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices…

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

— Sheila Heti

I don't want to be influenced as to what I write in the next book, to hear those voices in my head when I'm…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

— Amy Adams

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

— Greg Iles

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess I knew…

— Lynne Tillman

My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear…

— Eudora Welty

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until…

— Kimberly Willis Holt