Character Quote by William S. Burroughs Download Open image “Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.” — William S. Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Firsts Recorders Tape Use Voice
I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own. — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm here to play certain characters and give them a voice that they might not have had. That's my job, and like it or… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image