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The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.