Find Quote by Salman Rushdie

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

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

— Derek Walcott

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write…

— Nahnatchka Khan

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

— Kate Atkinson

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

— Pen Densham

“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.”

— Carla H. Krueger

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

— Nicole Byer

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

— Henry Miller

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like…

— Damon Wayans, Jr

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't…

— John Updike

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

— Stanley Cavell