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Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.