Between Quote by Walter Dean Myers

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and…

— Laura van den Berg

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

— Dee Rees

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in…

— Jason Reynolds

I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

— Katori Hall

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things…

— Sara Zarr

I found my voice in books.

— James Earl Jones

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my…

— Sefi Atta

I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different…

— Jay McInerney

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

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm…

— Sheila Heti

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it…

— Jamila Woods