Do you create new imaginary voices when you read for each distinct author?

I do not use distinct voices in my hear when I read. I sometimes do when I read aloud.

No I don’t when reading a novel. i read it in my own voice.

On Fluther, I do build up assumptions about people based on what they reveal but not necessarily an audio voice per se.

Most of the time with books, yes. Reading the news online or a newspaper or magazine, no.

Yes, when I read a book I do that quite often. On this site I do not tend to do that though.

I sure do. When I read a book, I automatically read it with different voices for each character.

@WillWorkForChocolate I do that as well. :)

When I read a book, there’s a different voice and appearance in my head for each character, as well as a setting for each place in the book. I imagine the whole situation as if it were actually going on.

I really don’t hear voices in my head, and I’ve discussed this here before. So, this would be virtually impossible for me.

Nope, not in my head. But kids love that shit when you’re reading them a story.

I do that sometimes, but mostly when I read children’s books. If I’m reading a children’s book to someone I bring up the voices I gave the characters when I was younger.

I have vivid voices and visuals for most of the characters and settings in the books I read. I’ve even sent some of my ideas to a couple of my favorite authors about particular actors who I envision, in my own mind, that I can see playing the parts. And they’ve written back and had lovely conversations with me about my ideas. I wrote to Ann B. Ross (author of the Miss Julia series) and to Nancy Thayer (author of the Hot Flash Club series). Both of them wrote back and seemed very pleased to hear what I thought. That was neat : )

For authors no but sometimes I can hear characters speaking in different voices. usually I hear the same voice for all but sometimes a character is out of the ordinary and gets a particular voice.

With most novels and comics I can usually hear each individual character, but the narrator can vary. The only author that has a voice to me is probably Kurt Vonnegut, only because I’ve heard plenty of his voice. Blogs and news articles are funny though, because I tend to hear them in the voice of Ira Glass (from This American Life) if my subconscious deems them “intelligently written”. Anything else is just voiceless.

No, I don’t create distinct voices for characters when reading. I tend to distinguish characters according to their mannerisms, etc, etc but not according to voice.

As @stellamedusa said, if I’ve heard the author’s voice much, I’ll give that voice to the narrator. Since that usually isn’t the case, the narrator for me generally doesn’t have a particular voice ever, even by the end of the book. (Unless it’s one of those, a character in the story telling his past narrations.)

The characters all develop their own voices in my head if they popup often enough in the story. However, I’m sure some characters from different books would sound similar, if I had a good enough memory to compare my mental imaginings for character dialogue from other stories.

In my head you all sound English…

@harple Even @pathfinder?

@Harp Good point, well made!

Yes, I have voices for people in books and for some on Fluther. From things I know about them, I will create voices and accents for a few.

@Harp whoa, haven’t seen you around in a while