Complaints Quote by Stanley Cavell

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other…

— James Frey

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things…

— Todd Newton

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life…

— Joanne Harris

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

— Don Henley

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

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

— David Frum

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something…

— Geraldine Brooks

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

— Sylvia Plath

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

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

— Larry Wilmore

When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm…

— Drake