Author Quotes
Roman Payne
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
4889 John Green
Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
4537 Marston James
To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete.
2835 Nikki Rowe
We all have a vision, a dream to hope for.
Some chase it and some wish upon it..
Who do you think, wins?
the chaser finds ways to create it, regardless of the fight, the wisher finds way to excuse it, because courage doesn't fill their hearts.
2255 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.
2127 Vladimir Nabokov
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
2035 Alex De Campi
There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.
1883 Charles Dickens
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
2714 Dana Stabenow
To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.
2858 Sarah Gilbert
You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.
1735 C.K. Webb
Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that flows from their pen.
1731 Shandy L. Kurth
Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.
4857 Wendy Swore
Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.
3648 Arti Honrao
I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.
2595 Anne Tyler
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
1766 Dani Harper
If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.
3853 Kai Strand
When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.
3365 Richard P. Denney
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.
3909 Ren Garcia
Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.
3872 Lori R. Lopez
I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.
3129 Washington Irving
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.
4432 Henry Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
1575 Bob Mayer
Content is King. Promotion is Queen
3198 John Bunyan
Now may this little Book a blessing be
To those that love this little Book, and me:
And may its Buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost, or thrown away.
1859 Anasia Nicole Hixon
Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.
3887 Larry Brooks
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.
3103 Shandy L. Kurth
...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.
1127 Ryan Lilly
Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.
2165 Ryan Lilly
A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.
3928 V.M. Sawh
Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.
1948 David Nicholls
There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.
1939 Evelyn Leilou Colon
Surviving a stupor of madness,
drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?
2456 Evelyn Leilou Colon
I must kill some memories,
the heavy ones first and after
make righteous of my un-even soul.
1856 Charles M. Heyworth
To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the temporal with an intellectual engagement of body, soul, spirit, and mind. To write, therefore is to entangle the mysteries of the universe in a collection of words, a web of ideas, a single drop of ink on a page.
1796 Rosie O'Donnell
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.
1090 Carew Papritz
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
3444 Ryan Lilly
I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.
4404 Ryan Lilly
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
1929 Jamie L. Harding
Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
4895 L.J. DeVet
The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened
1351 Richelle E. Goodrich
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
2769 Daniel Willey
Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.
2274 Jamie L. Harding
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
1579 Jamie L. Harding
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
3267 S.L. Walker
It's more important to be read than paid.
3746 Lina Lapina
Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.
3161 Michelle M. Pillow
People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
1236 Nina Jean Slack
Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack
1006 Pramoedya Ananta Toer
My words, my writing, my actions - these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
4231 Kia Carrington-Russell
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
1201 Sara Sheridan
The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.
4586 Diana Rose Morcilla
Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think I can do it, then my actions will be "I CAN" and I am able to do it. So the result or the consequence will be "I did it!".
4888 Michelle M. Pillow
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
4824 Aoboshi Kimama
I'm going to be a person who writes stories.
I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.
I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.
1735 Lori Kay
why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life.
2305 Tracie Molton
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
4916 Sol Luckman
The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.
2535 Nora Roberts
Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.
Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?
3416 Michelle M. Pillow
I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do-tell stories and entertain.
3131 Michelle M. Pillow
I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.
4491 Richard P. Denney
The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.
2272 Michelle M. Pillow
I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.
4382 Lillian R. Melendez
Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!
3399 Roland Barthes
Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
3978 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
2757 Wayne Hoss
Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not force yourself to write in the book, or it will reflect in your writing and it will be terribly obvious.
2732 Munia Khan
A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words
1850 Richelle E. Goodrich
I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.
2176 Richelle E. Goodrich
Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.
2498 Aniruddha Sastikar
Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.
3658 Steve K. Smy
An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.
3210 Richelle E. Goodrich
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
4100 Sara Sheridan
I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.
4388 Michael J. Kannengieser
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
2858 Richelle E. Goodrich
No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.
2467 Kate Inglis
There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.
2906 Richelle E. Goodrich
Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.
3575 Filippo Bologna
So there are countless reasons to remain on this Godforsaken planet that was long considered the only world, if for no other reason than to learn the end of our story: what the author of our lives has not yet taken the trouble to finish.
3243 Kate Forsyth
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
4219 Richard P. Denney
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
1433 Oswald Chambers
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
1252 L.M. Fields
I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.
4949 Melodie Ramone
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
4170 Nikki Rowe
I
started
creating;
Myself
From
The
Inside
Out
&
My
God
I
Wish
I
Had
Done
It
Sooner.
2175 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.
3305 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.
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