Author Quotes - Page 14

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern, that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own. They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child. . . . True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known. . . . Besides, isn’t it true that promotion is expensive? I will be the least expensive author of the publishing house. I’ll spare you even my presence.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author does not precede the works, he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and recomposition of fiction. In fact, if we are accustomed to presenting the author as a genius, as a perpetual surging of invention, it is because, in reality, we make him function in exactly the opposite fashion. One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverse is, one has an ideological production). The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.In saying this, I seem to call for a form of culture in which fiction would not be limited by the figure of the author…

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...

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

Your Brain is most Precious FACTORY in the World Because, It MANUFACTURES Thoughts

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.

When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with my head slumped over and my fingers still on the keyboard and the last sentence trailing off like eeeeeejjjjjjjjjjjjj . . . Then I'd finally crawl to bed. Mornings were rough, but I got used to it. It was invigorating to write a couple thousand words while the rest of the world was asleep. More invigorating than rest.

You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind!

I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten

I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got

Your hair is your halo, Wear it well!

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.

We always want to hold on tight to those we love; but if we intend to keep those we love, we must let go every once in awhile.

A man's action always takes it's result along.

Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that flows from their pen.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets.

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

In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

No one should judge another person's journey.

To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does.

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.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

We are never going to get the results and take empowered action when our mindsets are in opposition to our desires

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

NO SURROGATE CAN BIRTHYOUR GREATNESSSO LET THEM STEAL TIME WILL REVEAL

The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.

Mystery is what makes women, woman. A woman without mystery is no woman. She is a girl who has yet discovered the depths of her heart.

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.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

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.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.

To overcome the sadness of our hearts, we must remember the joys of our lives.

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

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.