Voices In My Head Quotes

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said ‘not another tights role!

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It’s more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

I feel the closest to crazy when I’m disagreeing with the voice in my head

Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.

Is it still okay to make fun of schizophrenics? There’s a little voice in my head that says no.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.

I’m not very happy idle. There’s always this voice in my head that says, ‘I should be writing.

Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It’s like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head – I was psyching myself out.

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that’s really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa… Write it down!

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can’t do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

The blank page doesn’t bother me. It’s the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It’s worse when I’m not making stuff up.

So all you want is a kiss?” I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. “Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.

I’ve only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.