Authors Quotes
Flannery O'Connor
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
4091Roopleen
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
2379 Roopleen
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
2452 Roopleen
The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.
1652 E.A. Bucchianeri
One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.
3368 Dorothy Parker
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
2109 Benjamin J. Carey
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
2587 Martha Sweeney
It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!
4849 Roman Payne
The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.
4563 J.D. Salinger
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
4285 Thomas Mann
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
2651 G.K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
1016 Louisa May Alcott
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
3676 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
4502 Kim Addonizio
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.
2741 P.G. Wodehouse
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
1805 John Steinbeck
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
1668 David Gerrold
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
3799 Eudora Welty
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.
1355 Julian Barnes
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
3154 Meagan Spooner
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
4459 Chloe Thurlow
Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.
1136 Alain De Botton
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
3315 Philip Larkin
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
2728 John Lanchester
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
2326 Doris Lessing
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
3553 P.D. James
All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.
3983 Elizabeth Sims
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.
For your writing to come alive-to be multi-dimensional-you must barter away some control.
1056 E.B. White
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments - moments of sustained creation - when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
1711 Mary O'Hara
Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
4367 Mariam Kobras
"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
4294 Richelle E. Goodrich
I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
3194 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.
4640 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 Yuri Boganov
Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.
3935 Evelyn Leilou Colon
I have witness the stars brighter
than a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write 'until death do us part.
1639 Philip L. Moore
If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with you!
2820 A.K. Kuykendall
My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.
2667 Jo Linsdell
There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
4725 Ryan Lilly
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
1929 Christos Tsiolkas
I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.
2320 Anne Rice
Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
4467 Christos Tsiolkas
I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.
1838 Richelle E. Goodrich
It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.
4789 Zia Haider Rahman
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.
3842 Zia Haider Rahman
That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.
2428 Ashly Lorenzana
Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.
4248 Ashly Lorenzana
The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.
1960 Mary Papas
David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.
1824 Christos Tsiolkas
Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.
3758 Noël Coward
Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
2709 A.K. Kuykendall
The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.
4134 Mark A. Cooper
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.
3562 David Rose
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.
4180 E.A. Bucchianeri
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
1598 Brandi L. Bates
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
4349 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.
3340 Adam Gopnik
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
4305 Don Roff
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
3035 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 Jorge Luis Borges
... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.
3019 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 Brandi L. Bates
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
3456 Munia Khan
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works
3324 Teresa Mummert
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
4431 Teresa Mummert
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
3406 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 Arundhati Roy
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
1284 Ben Lerner
There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
1784 Dermot Davis
People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
1186 Dermot Davis
By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.
4862 Sara Sheridan
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.
4670 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
2757 Munia Khan
A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words
1850 Ogwo David Emenike
Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
1207 Max Vegaritter
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire to
Rousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to be
irresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.
We read them for their Words, not for their deeds.
4655 Marti Melville
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
4511 Ace Antonio Hall
Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
3786 Alina Radoi
they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...
3882 Nadine C. Keels
Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something-a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question - -ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.
1418 Neil Gaiman
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.
3562 Richelle E. Goodrich
Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.
3916 Richelle E. Goodrich
Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover.
3258 Brenda Ashworth Barry
A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world
1336 Italo Calvino
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
3190 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom
4877 Lindy Dale
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon
2876 Palle Oswald
Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.
1195 William Goldman
The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
1078 Oprah Winfrey
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
1685 Sontia Levy
Getting a spark of inspiration to write is the best feeling in the world, no matter what time it is...I get a feeling on the inside that urges me to get up from whatever I am doing, grabbing that pen and writing down whatever my heart and mind tells me too... it's beautiful."
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