Audience Quote by Teju Cole

“The voice you hear when you read to yourself is the clearest voice: you speak it speaking to you.”

— Thomas Lux

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

— Stephen Ambrose

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

— Bob Edwards

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

“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice…

— Terry Nardin

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

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance…

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and…

— Mohammed Dib

I think when people hear my book on Audible, they'll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit…

— Jill Biden

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

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