Author Quotes - Page 11

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

Plan, prepare and grow. Repeat.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.

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.

18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you’ll never have reason to apply it to yourself.tAcross the fields of yesterday,tHe sometimes comes to metA little lad just back from play—tThe boy I used to be.tHe looks at me so wistfullytWhen once he’s crept within;tIt is as if he hoped to seetThe man I might have been.

Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!

Success is not about what you have; instead, it is about who you are becoming.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.

Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Give a poet a pen

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

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating them, and prevent them from losing their pages over the years like a man loses his hair. But inventing the stories in them, filling new, empty pages with right words-- I can't do that. That's a very different trade. A famous writer once wrote, 'An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or magician-- but a magician, the enchanter, is in the ascendant.

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

It doesn't matter what you look like when you see in the mirror, what matters most, is how you feel about yourself.

Be your OWN celebrity!

There is no apology for passion

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

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.

A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

Did you know that many people can not "see" the Man in the Moon? Their eyes and brains cannot put together the "face:" the two eyes, the nose, and the mouth. It's not mentioned to belittle anyone. It is mentioned for awareness, and for scientific knowledge of the human brain. For in fact, the Man in the Moon most certainly sees us.

Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas.

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

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.

Kiss away the past as you head towards the future.

Experience is the best teacher.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

You'll never be completely sure about the first move, but do it anyway.

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about writing. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

Love yourself unconditionally.Do what you love to do.Be grateful for what you do have.Happiness is an attitude of gratitude.Love all of life.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you.

Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

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

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you to spend the next couple of hours reading this book and then, in the next ten days implementing what you’ve learned here. When you realize the value of the impact your book will make, your decision to write will be a no-brainer! Using this very simple, powerful system you will soon be thinking about your second book, and third book. You will want to recruit your spouse, children and parents to write. You will understand that everyone has a unique voice whose legacy is to be forever captured in print. They key is to begin. Dreaming about getting started is not going to make it happen. Action is everything so make a promise to yourself to commit and take action.

Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would go every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life is that the days aren't long enough to write all the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts I'm thinking. I've finished the second draft of my book and am going to begin the third tomorrow morning at half-past seven. It's the sweetest book you ever saw— it is, truly. I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in the morning to dress and eat before beginning; then I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so tired that I'm limp all over.

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.