Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I want it to have a message. I want it to empower people to say what they think.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

Life is too short to blend in.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

I choose to express myself.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

I write the way I write.

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

I'm blessed to have a voice, and I'm going to use it.

It's okay to say what you want to do.

Don't be afraid to speak out about what you're passionate about because your voice matters and your voice can, at the end of the day, make a difference.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

If you have something to say, especially that's different and needed, then do it.

If you want to make a statement, wear purple.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear...you are the determining factor.

Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of singularity (to replenish such banality with all the élan of an emotion which belonged only to myself).

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.