Peter Morgan Quotes

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

I never had trouble saying what I have to say.

Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.

Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.

I like how I write better than how I speak.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

It's important for everyone to just be able to express themselves in whatever way.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking with them.

Books are really fun because your 'voice' is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become.

Music says the things that people don't say or are afraid to say, and that's the best part about it for me.

People find a way in which they can say something.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.