Finding Your Voice Quotes

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent”
― Madeleine K. Albright

“My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I'll never forget. I'll never give up. I'll never be quiet.

I promise.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.”
― Jo Ann Fore

“Your voice is the most potent magic in existence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“My truth asked people to understand and to learn about depths of pain they had previously walked past…. I had kept my silence for a reason. - from Without a Voice by Chris Pepple”
― Chris Pepple, Without a Voice

“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own”
― Carla H. Krueger

“You are closer than you think and more qualified in your message than you could ever fathom”
― Rebecca Campbell

“After all, you could use your outside voice and scream your head off, but sometimes it didn’t seem as if the screaming was being heard.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.”
― Edith Layton, The Crimson Crown

“The Buddha left Bodh Gaya to teach others. Jesus came out of the Judaean desert to preach. Spiritual awakening is meaningless if it does not culminate in finding your voice and speaking up for what is right.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“But I'm not a writer..."

How many times have you thought that? How many times have you said it out loud?

How many times have you read a beautifully worded book or a poem or an essay or a social media post and felt it take your breath away? Felt that yearning inside of you, that longing to do that or learn that or become that thing...the one that would let you find the words to share your story like that.

If only you were brave enough. If only you were wise enough. If only you had all the right words. If only you were talented. If only you could speak the truth without being judged. If only you could write like her or him or them.

If only you were a writer...

Guess what. You are. You are a writer - and I promise you this. If you were not a writer you wouldn't be here.

You are a writer because words dance in your brain and itch the tips of your fingers - begging you to pick up the pen or click the keyboard. Because a phrase on a page or the lyric of a song can steal your breath and remind you of all lines that live in your soul that long for release. Because you are pulled, again and again, and again to story. To the real and raw and the fantastically make-believe.

You are a writer because of your willingness to stare into the void and face the demons and weave the beauty of the world around you into words. And even if those words don't ever make it to a page, they live inside of you.

Because you couldn't stop, even if you wanted to. And you don't want to. Because the words are like your breath and the story - your story - that is the air. And the magic that happens when we come together to make stories - well, that's the universe.

So the next time you're tempted to let that phrase or any other like it - slip into your brain or from your lips - shut that shit down.

Immediately.

You are a writer. Do you hear me? You said yes. You are here. You are showing up at the page and sitting in front of the screen. You are welcoming the muse. You are facing the fear. And you are writing.

You are a writer.

And that's the beginning and end of everything.

Now, stop arguing with me, and go write already.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Three Things I Know To Be True:
1. Yes. You ARE a writer.
2. The world is waiting for YOUR voice.
3. Nobody can tell your story but YOU.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Finding your voice is a journey of discovering yourself.”
― Ute Wieczorek-King , Distinctive Voice : The fearless guide to a wholehearted blog worth noticing