“He could read the phonebook and make it sound terrific.”
Philip Levine
more infosource: describing Dylan Thomas in “A Useful Poetry,” interview by Wen Stephenson, The Atlantic, April 8, 1999.
category: Dylan Thomas, eloquence, phonebook, poetry, voice
medium: Interview
“An echo is often more beautiful than the voice it repeats.”
Oscar Wilde
more infosource: Sebastian Melmoth (London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905), 131.
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category: beauty, echo, sound, voice
medium: Nonfiction
“My overcoat is so dreary that I know maman would never have tolerated the black or gray scarf I always wear with it, and I keep hearing her voice telling me to wear a little color.
For the first time, then, I decide to wear a colored scarf (Scotch plaid).”
Roland Barthes
more infosource: entry dated March 6, 1978, in Mourning Diary, translated by Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 2010), 99.
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category: color, mother, mourning, voice
medium: diary
notes: On index cards, Roland Barthes starting keeping a mourning diary the day after his mother died in October 1977.
“I’ve often described myself as a literary hermit crab. I scuttle around the currents of literature and find a home in someone’s imagined truth. When that imagined truth is my imagined truth, as a person, there is an amazing connection between the author and me. His voice becomes my voice.”
George Guidall
more infosource: actor who narrates audio books describing his process, in “Art of Storytelling Alive and Well in Audio Books,” Morning Edition, NPR, interviewed by Steve Inskeep, November 16, 2010.
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category: audio book, creative process, literature, publishing, truth, voice
medium: radio story
“Be gentle and keep your voice low.”
Elbert Hubbard
more infosource: The Motto Book (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1920), 13.
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category: aphorism, gentle, philosophy, school of life, voice
medium: aphorism
voice