Voice Quotes - Page 2

I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.

The place where music and worship meet is like a divine mystery of sorts.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

In solitude, you listen to sacred voice.

Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the Mabinogion or Mother Goose or Dickens or Dickinson or Baldwin or whatever speaks to you deeply. Literature is not high school and it’s not actually necessary to know what everyone around you is wearing, in terms of style, and being influenced by people who are being published in this very moment is going to make you look just like them, which is probably not a good long-term goal for being yourself or making a meaningful contribution. At any point in history there is a great tide of writers of similar tone, they wash in, they wash out, the strange starfish stay behind, and the conches.

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she opened it a hand from every page held her and pulled her inside. And in a moment even before she could realize what was happening to her she was drowning in the sea, fighting to breathe and fighting to swim back to the surface. But the hands kept pulling her down deep into the darkness until her voice died slowly.

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

The strongest words can be said in the softest voices and still be resonant.