Quotes About Author

Hometown are different to anything I've heard. They have an incredible blend in their vocal styles. They are going to be huge.

The Trump administration gives me so many more opportunities to be verbal and vocal.

The most vocal fans online are girls, which is interesting. I didn't expect that.

I've been very vocal in the past about my mental health issues.

I strongly believe that Professor Longhair playing just instrumentals would be just as effective as stylized vocals; that's how much I believe in his music.

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

I sing a few backing vocals but Im not much of a singer. You wont see me on 'X Factor.'

Getting comfortable again and being in a vocal booth on the opposite end of the spectrum, when you're normally the one tracking the vocals, is kind of scary.

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn't really adore me.

I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'

It's only shocking to the uninitiated that 'Teen Vogue' would have the audacity to be political and style-focused.

I just think Vogue is the most exceptional mother - and I'm not just saying that because she can hear me.

My ideal night is spending it in with Vogue.

Vogue and I weren't looking for a serious relationship at the time we met and I think that's probably part of the reason why we became so close as friends first.

I'm very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.