Dictating Quote by Rod Serling

Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it…

— Anonymous

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's…

— Sarah Wayne Callies

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

— Vivek Shraya

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

— Zach Galifianakis

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

— Steve Vai

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

— Nicole Byer

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

— Anonymous

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly…

— Anne Tyler

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead…

— John Berger

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta