Author Quotes - Page 2

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.

The things I do are known to the world, but why I do them is my secret alone.

When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.

The structure of a 'writing schedule' is only there as a frame. You provide the image, the emotion, and the sentiment in your own time.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

Leave mystery in your life. Give them a little and keep them wondering. If you reveal everything about yourself, people will lose interest. For as humans, we are curious creatures. We are more interested in the things lurking in the shadows than the things that are brought into the light.

My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

I often get asked the question, 'If you had to compare your writing to an author who would it be?' My answer is always the same; the author I compare myself to is me. Every writer has a unique style relevant to only themselves. I am nothing like other authors; some aspects of my writing may have similarities to another, but in the end, each and every one of us is different.

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends.

The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.

God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again."- Elizabeth's Quotes

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients.

Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

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.

I have inflammation of the imagination.

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

The more we understand how we individually operate, the easier it is for us to understand that we are all similar..from the same human race;doing the best we can based on the programmings that we've each acquired. Then, we never have to take things personally, because then we comprehend the fact that we are just like birds: same race, same tribe, but flying with different types of wings." :)

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.

My favorite thing is when people underestimate me.

Great posture never goes out of style.

In the stories Joan wrote when she was Daniel’s age, she had murdered her characters, while Daniel had his one character facing down dangers and searching for answers. The genesis of the stories was clear to her: because Daniel felt loved and safe within his family, he could imagine himself taking risks, venturing out onto figurative limbs. He was lucky, Joan thought. She had only felt loved and safe within the worlds she created.

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

Keep Reading.Keep Writing.Keep Pushing yourself!And never stop learning!We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".

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.

Attorney Chris Salamone served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).

The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur...In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it.

�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

The author is still dead, folks!!

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

In my world," said Posy, "authors write stories, and the characters do whatever the author tells them. It's not like this--the characters don't have minds and lives of their own.""How do you know this?" was Caris' surprising reply. The corner of her mouth turned up in a playful smile. "You do not see the characters when the pages of the book are shut. Is there never a time when you read a book for the second time and you notice something that you didn't remember from the first time? Or hear a story told, and every time it is told it grows and changes in the telling? Change is the nature of everything.

Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable.

I want to be able to speak to as many people as I can in my life and share this with the world!

Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.

Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can't understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. ""Bob!" said Mrs. Ray. "You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry.""Cry, eh?" said Mr. Ray, grinning. "In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you're going to be a writer."Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed."But if you're going to be a writer," he went on, "you've got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

Maybe love and pain are synonyms.

We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.