Authors Quotes - Page 2

Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more

An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert" in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard, or whatever you choose, but the long and short of it is that books are no longer just books. They are branding devices and credibility builders, not to mention door openers. Books are the reason that authors command large speaking and consulting fees.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

I’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.

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.

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

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.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

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.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

In order to be heard, an author must have readers...

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review. It not only means a lot to us to know you enjoyed our work, it inspires us to write more! Thank you!

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it’s a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don’t need anyone to confirm it.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his" -Tara Reese

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer force of will and some clever word placement, I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.

. . . 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.

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

We are writing the history of our time.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

A woman does not become whole until she has a baby.

If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might write a brilliant book, only to follow it up with something utterly mediocre. Or, and this was almost worse, one might have written a brilliant book but then turn out to be dead. Then there were those authors who started a series but never finished it.

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

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.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's delusions. Now, I don't know about the true things or the not-true things, because there seem to be so many of them, but I do know about Mother's delusions, and they're solid. They range from the conviction that the waffle iron, unless watched, is going to strangle the toaster, to the delusion that electricity pours out of an empty socket onto your head, and nothing is going to change any one of them.The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. I am, this morning, endeavoring to persuade you to join me in my deluded world; it is a happy, irrational, rich world, full of fairies and ghosts and free electricity and dragons, and a world beyond all others fun to walk around in. All you have to do---and watch this carefully please--is keep writing. As long as you write it away regularly, nothing can really hurt you.

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist’s couch or even the lovers’ bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall.

An author’s strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher’s commitment to it.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write.In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as ambitious as a novel, I have to constantly mutter, 'I'm not writing a masterpiece, I'm not writing a masterpiece.'This mantra lulls him into a kind of stupor so that he pays no attention to what I'm doing, because after all, I'm not claiming it's any good. Slowly, and secretly, one page at a time, I write my story.I know I've succeeded when he grudgingly admits, 'That's pretty good.' And if I'm lucky, every once in a while, I blow him away.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten.

I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.