Quotes About Perspective

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.

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.

If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise.

As filmmakers, we are interested in unique voices.

As an outsider, you observe what everyone is saying. Insiders are sometimes too insulated, listening to voices in their own little group.

There is no single voice in fandom; there is a multitude of voices, so you listen to them all because there are some good ideas coming from everywhere, but at the end of the day, we have to use our own instincts as a guide.

Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

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'm interested in stories being told by marginalized voices and, specifically, people of color.

It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

I feel like there's so many voices, and it's necessary for there to be a lot of different voices because we can't all like the same art. That would just be so boring... If anybody wants to hear it, I'm here. It makes for a more interesting world for there to be more than one kind of singer.