human. We kind of think the voice is the narrator. It certainly helps if the stories are riveting, but a great voice renders the dullest event remarkable.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
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human. We kind of think the voice is the narrator. It certainly helps if the stories are riveting, but a great voice renders the dullest event remarkable.
I began to read the greats in essay writing—and it wasn’t their confessing voices I was responding to, it was their truth-speaking personae.
Vivian Gornick • The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
- The best predictor of a piece of writing’s quality is the writer
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
Tell it to me as a story.
Steven Pressfield • Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It
A voice that speaks, a woman’s voice that speaks, a voice that speaks stories of life and death, has the power to give life.
Paul Auster • The Invention of Solitude
the narrative voice The voice that tells the story is the first thing the reader encounters. It carries us from the first page to the last. We, the readers, must believe in this narrative voice or, at least, we must feel strongly for that voice and have a definite and consistent opinion about it.