I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.
I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.
Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.
Everyone has said I got my own sound.
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.
Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.
This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
I guess my voice is more recognizable than I know!
I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.
When you are pursuing art, it is critical to develop something signature. There are plenty of people who are followers, but it is absolutely necessary to have something that sets you apart.
It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.
My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.
Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, 'That sounds like Rakim.'
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
