Author Quotes - Page 10

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within.

Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

They fought because they loved the dance, and the weight of a sword in their hands. The clash and spark of metal and hiss of flame was like music written just for them. They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior's stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Words both written and read are my passion.

The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author’s head that―in an excited explosion of words―suddenly become a captivating fairytale!

When you're sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you're passionate and sick, you'll find a way to write down something.

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

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

Where have all the Fembots gone?

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.

Our past is what molds us into the person we are today. It does not define us.

I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

The most magical thing I have come across is a beautiful face with a beautiful heart and it's you❤ ❤

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.

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn’t look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

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

Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually. Think, Act Wise before it's Late.

Just Keeping You 'In the Know.

If I've learned one thing about a woman: they'll get over every damn single tragedy without losing the charm of their smile.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn’t hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler's precision.But it was not good enough.He wanted the pages to sing with ideas that had once seemed so important to him, all and everything he knew, and yet they did not, and no amount of diligence was able to bring them to life. The story came to be a burden and weighed more heavily in his hands each time he lifted it out of the drawer. After a few weeks he was reluctant to open the desk at all.("Talking In The Dark")

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?

There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

What is the beauty of a thing if others do not take pleasure in it.

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence.

Education is liberation, knowledge is power.

Money doesn't make the things you need. People do.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.

My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period.

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

At one point in my life I was a disappointment. I have popped pills, drugs, cheated, lied, and killed. But, at this moment in my life, I am very successful because not one of those things describes my character.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

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

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.