Top 1200 Writer's Voice Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

I think I'm going to be taking some voice lessons because I'd like to do a voice in a video game. Something like 'Call of Duty.'

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or a writer who came up on the Internet.

I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice, is slower to come to me.

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's not a mezzo soprano; it's a nothing voice really.

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

I felt like Inglewood, being the place where I originally found my voice, would be the place where I could sort of redefine my voice.

In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

I think I have a great voice, but it's not special enough to be remembered. But what's special about me is much more than just my voice.

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

'Writer's block' sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.