Fiction Quote by Sheila Heti

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

— Dean Koontz

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as…

— Ayana Mathis

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

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

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when…

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

— Lee Klein

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry

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

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his…

— Ridley Pearson

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

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of…

— Adam Morris

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know…

— Sam Shepard