Top 1200 Writer's Voice Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

For 'Barnyard,' I did the voice of a 'chick,' which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.

You don't get to choose your voice! I was never like, 'Oh, I'll take the voice that causes dogs to gather outside.'

A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It's just people we gave a voice to who didn't deserve to have a voice.

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

It was this thing I used to do, where I would get on the phone and put my voice in a man's voice like, 'Hey, you're talking to Tom.'

No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I have a voice, and I'm trying to use it to be the voice for all the innocent people who don't have one.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time to do, I think I realized I write black people very well. I write us in a very honest way, and I want to hear the way we really talk.

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer that wants a rewarding career, in terms of money and status and number of readers, finally finds a certain genre or certain style that he or she sticks with until reaching a critical mass of readership. And I've violated this from the get-go.

I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.

God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.

Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.

For me, it is very important that we listen to the voice of the investors, not only the voice of the Ukrainian government officials, parliamentarians, or the president.

People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

There is a layer of Armaan's voice in the hook line of 'Kar gayi chull' and it was mainly his voice there, but he wasn't credited in the track.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

I was blown away by Steve Perry's voice - you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.