Quotes About Author

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load.

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it.

In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.

I play a lot of nerdy voices.

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

I wanted to work for CBS because I loved the way CBS broadcast the Masters and I loved the way CBS presented the NFL. I loved the voices I heard.

Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the positive comments from readers.

The problem with Alien Voices 'was we had four really terrific years. And then it began to be about selling: Simon & Schuster wanted whatever, 40,000 units sold a year.'