Quotes about authors

Raining with words words becomes sentences sentences becomes a paragraph and paragraphs becomes a short story!

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker they need it to take the edge off.

Writers don't have bad life days they just have good research days.

People visit exposed and vulnerable writers live there

The most difficult thing about writing is writing the first line.

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

Authors have to help each other out. It isn't a competition we're all holding hands to cross the street here.

Professional writers don't have muses they have mortgages.

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work it is what I do.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

. . . 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.

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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

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.

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

You can have practically anything you want in this world, if you have great credit.

Writers are made, they are not born.

Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today? For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince Lombardi. Nothing surprises me. I never grew-up with prejudices against anyone. I don't care what color you are or where you came from. This sort of stuff to me never made sense. You see I grew up in an "educated family." Education teaches you not to be so ignorant.

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Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today. For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince lombardi. Nothing surprises me. I never grew-up with prejudices against anyone. I don't care what color you are or where you came from. This sort of stuff to me never made sense. You see I grew up in a "educated family." Education teaches you not to be so ignorant.

Start having more confidence in yourself, and others will do the same.

Stop now and decide to never worry again about what others think about you.

Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks.

Get out of your comfort zone and go for it. I do this when I apply for lead acting parts in feature movies.

Forget about how old you are, and get busy.

When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.

there is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude,one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose.

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

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

A women does not become whole, until she has a baby.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.

Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open.

Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat, but being able to inspire the soul as well is true talent.

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

Be careful because brazen behavior and a powerful mind can hide a delicate heart.

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

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

... 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.

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

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

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

It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

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The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

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.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

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.

I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

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 w

My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her "Husbands and Brothers" page on "What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing". I believe in encouraging aunts, when deserving; and, as there are many worse eggs than her knocking about the metrop, I had consented blithely. But I give you my honest word that if I had had the foggiest notion of what I was letting myself in for, not even a nephew's dev

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

I write to believe in goodness.

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.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.I write past the embarrassment of exposure.I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nigh

And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choo

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. 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 envi

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.

Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.

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

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’

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

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

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

What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

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

The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern'sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou 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.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

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

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

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.

Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or schools of thought. They're not born when they're printed; in fact, they only start to live once they're read. So first of all, we thank you, reader. You dignify this work we do, and we're sincerely grateful for your time and attention.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you