Quotes about author-quotes

Mylo Carbia - The Raping of Ava DeSantis

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Lee Bice-Matheson-Matheson -

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

James D. Maxon -

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few.

R.K. King -

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

Martha Sweeney -

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

Jennifer Renson -

There is no apology for passion

Chris Mentillo - Obliterated: Everything is About To Change

They're Coming.

Chris Mentillo - Obliterated: Everything is About To Change

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

Jonathan Kieran - Rowan Blaize and the Hand of Djin Rummy

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Vishwas Mudagal -

What is Religion according to you?“Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.

April Mae Monterrosa -

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

Sarah Grimm - Not Without Risk

Tempting as your offer is, I won’t go home with you. I can’t sleep with you, Justin. You say it doesn’t have to be that way, but you and I both know that’s the way it would be. You’re a risk I can’t afford to take.

S.C. Silver - The B Word: The B in LBGTQ Poetry

So I never told you about my sexual orientation - it means we were never close friends. My body my business.

Ben Abix -

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

Lorii Myers -

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Stephanie Lahart -

Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Lucian Bane - Dom Wars: Round Six

Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.

Carew Papritz - his Final Gift

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

Stephanie Lahart -

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

Stephanie Lahart -

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

Stephanie Lahart -

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust yourself. Believe in your instincts. Do what works best for YOU. Stay true to yourself and be good to yourself. Allow every decision that you make to empower, enrich, and add value to your life!

S.G. Holster - Terrible Lies

There was no gentle way around it - hearts would be broken, relationships would be crushed and I was the messenger.

S.G. Holster - Terrible Lies

Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.

Leslie Austin - A Fox Called Woff

Today I write,riots with insite!Tomorrow I read,take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write,and got no gripe!

Leslie Austin - A Fox Called Woff

I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow!Droplets run down the wall,where do they go?Letters in the raw,mesh together for the show!

Walter Farley - The Black Stallion

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

Eveli Acosta -

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

Alessandra Torre -

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

Chris Mentillo -

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

Chris Mentillo -

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

Chris Mentillo -

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

Allison J. Kennedy -

Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like trudging through a forest of thorny vines in hopes that you'll find freedom on the other side.

Tamyara Brown -

The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.

Jaime Reed -

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

Chris Mentillo - Obliterated: Everything is About To Change

Even though it’s pleasing to boast about achievements I have earned in my generation, nothing makes me more content in the world than just having the exciting opportunity to share my passion of work with the public. What is even more exhilarating, is being able (having the capability) to spend quality time with my loving wife, (Gloria) and family doing what I love most in the world -- writing. Their total well-being and health, along with my health too means everything to me. I have had my fair

Mylo Carbia - The Raping of Ava DeSantis

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Chris Everheart -

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Susan J. McIntire -

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

Leslie Austin - A Fox Called Woff

Words both written and read are my passion.

B.A. Gabrielle -

Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.

Don Roff -

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Danny L. Deaubé -

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Every book has its ancestors

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

Mylo Carbia - The Raping of Ava DeSantis

If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light.

Benny Bellamacina - Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!

Kristyn Van Cleave -

When I started this book last year, I had a small reception in mind. A few copies in my hand to share with close friends, maybe a small gathering... I never imagined that my book would have its own ISBN number and be available to the public. I never imagined seeing my name next to the words, "published author." I feel so thankful that this has worked out so well for me. God is good!

Vikrmn - 10 Alone

When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.

B.A. Gabrielle -

When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.

B.A. Gabrielle -

Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don't hold anything back.

Leslie Austin -

If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!

Leslie Austin - A Fox Called Woff

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Cormac McCarthy -

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

T.N. Suarez -

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

E.L. Doctorow -

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -

Leslie Austin - A Fox Called Woff

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!

Chrys Phillips -

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you!

Paul W. Feenstra -

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

T.N. Suarez -

Write something today that you future self will be proud of.

Daniel Waters -

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

Benny Bellamacina - Piddly Poems for Children

Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson -

ANYAELE SAM CHIYSON’S LAW OF OBJECTIVITY : You must be aware of who you are, use your ability to do all things right, and have all things turn out well for you without hindrance through personal feelings, prejudice, impedance or encumbrance to make your mark impeccably and in a way that is free from any subjective preference and full of excellence.

Bernard Kelvin Clive -

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity

Tushar Upreti -

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Caron Kamps Widden - Restoration

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

Jennifer Renson - Carousel

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

Kim Ha Campbell - Inner Peace Outer Abundance

top connecting with the world. Connect with yourself on your beach. Stop thinking. Stop analyzing. Start feeling. Start dreaming.

N.A. Koziol -

Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.

Karen A. Chase -

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

Bernard Kelvin Clive -

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book

Bernard Kelvin Clive -

Don’t write like your mentors

S.W. Frank - Amoroso

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

Carew Papritz - his Final Gift

As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.

Belle Whittington -

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

Aditi Dufare -

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.

Lisa Marbly-Warir -

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Alan Dapre - The Finders

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Traci M. Sanders -

I am an architect of words there is no limit to the number of 'stories' I can create!

Carmen DeSousa -

Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes I enjoy a seven-course meal.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

You are the author of your own destiny write yourself into history books.

Benny Bellamacina - Piddly Poems for Children

The sun doesn’t live in England it comes here on holiday when we’re all at work.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity

A writer is a thought smith he educates men to think for themselves

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity

A writer is never alone he is always in conversation with himself

Allison J. Kennedy -

Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven’t done enough.

Imania Margria -

Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing.

Imania Margria -

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

Imania Margria -

When we release all the negativity in our lives and notice the beauty all around us, we'll see what truly matters in life.

Imania Margria -

Even if I don't have wings to fly, I'll close my eyes and open my heart; then I'll make love my wings and hope the winds that give me flight.

Adhish Mazumder -

A lot can be changed in a span of a year. A thousand lives can be moulded, a lot many lessons can be learnt and life can show its unpredictability. Even so, one year is enough to prove to yourself that you are worth the struggle that you undertake just to reap a momentary fruit of that labour. If fighting a new fight keeps us motivated each year, so be it. Here is wishing every fighter, struggling to make a break and succeed in life a memorable New Year. Do what you do best and don't trade your

Rome Sims -

Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only then, if triumphant, can a destiny bestowed become a destiny fulfilled.

Ken Poirot -

Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled.

Donna Goddard -

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

Evelyn Smith -

When an author sleeps, her brain creates more stories for her pen.

Emilyann Girdner -

If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it.

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