Author Quotes - Page 15

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

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start by knowing my intention, my target. Then, with purpose, I write the scene that unfolds before me, as faithfully as is human. - Daniel LaMonte

Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

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

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Just write it,Because it is the next best thing of the world.

In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell."Page 68

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

Live the dream awake.

Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission.

The first task of every author is to evoke emotion in their reader. You may laugh or you may cry; you may love me or you may hate me. So long as you feel something, I know that I'm doing my job.

If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.

Every programmer is an author.

Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She was everything I wanted to be; strong, smart, witty, and above all else, she didn't care what other people thought about her. But after a while, she started to take on a personality of her own, and I was suddenly more interested in her story than I was in mine.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

Great posture never goes out of style.

I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others

Leadership is relationship.

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget!

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

The more we understand how we individually operate, the easier it is for us to understand that we are all similar..from the same human race;doing the best we can based on the programmings that we've each acquired. Then, we never have to take things personally, because then we comprehend the fact that we are just like birds: same race, same tribe, but flying with different types of wings." :)

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.

Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the intrepid spirits whom share the present as well as with those souls whom are not yet born.

If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not. You are about as original as all those other witless twits "writing" the one millionth shitty Fifty Shades clone. Or maybe you're trying to show your 2000 fake Facebook "friends" that you are an empowered feminist who will not stand for sexist terminology. But you're not showing people that you are fighting the good fight, you're showing people that you are a sheep, who's trying just a little too hard to ride the current wave of idiotic political correctness. The word "author" is no more gender-discrimination than the word "person." Do you call yourself a personess? No, of course not, because then you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says, "Hello, I'm a retard.

A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.

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

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or enhanced by one’s writing ability—what I call word work. My goal from then on was to make sure my writing skills were up to speed with my imagination.

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

Age does not matter if you're chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you'll see some progress.

It doesn't matter if your life is perfect as long as your hair color is.

If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success.

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

inspiration is not a thing, its every thing, open your eyes and inspiration is everywhere.

More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man’s bucket.

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

When hope seems like a faded memory, remember love and hope will return stronger than ever.

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

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.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness.

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.

I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.

A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.