Author Quotes - Page 17

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

You are the only author of your book that matters.

The first and foremost leadership quality is Honesty, the business and its employees are a reflection of a leader and as a result the ethical behavior will be followed by everyone in the team

The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page, a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically emphatic sentence, falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance. The pages of a recently finished story seemed to vibrate in her hand with all the life they contained.

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it!

Writing is self-pleasure

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

Reflect onto the world what you want them to see. Let your heart help them figure out the rest of who you truly are.

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

Don’t write like your mentors

I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs.

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

I’m likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.

Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, it's hard when I notice women falling in love with me, and then destroying everything at the same time. And so, I'm changing the world as much as this world is changing me. The two things are inseparable.

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

I am Stephanie Lahart! An intelligent, empowered, and confident Black Queen. Purposely Fearless!

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

By connecting your inner child to your internal being, you bring out the hero in you that is inside all of us.

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

I would rather try and fail at something than not try at all. Because if I don't try to do something, I will be filled with wonder on whether or not I could've succeeded, and not soon after that wonder will turn to regret. I refuse to live my life wondering and regretting what could've been. I want to live my life with the satisfaction of knowing I tried no matter if I succeed or fail.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Did you… need something?” he asked in a tight voice.tI swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say. The fear pricking at me, telling me I had one last chance to wimp out. To walk away.tBut I shook my head. No. Not this time.t“Yes,” I said simply. “I need something.”t“And what, may I ask, do you need?”tI met his eyes. “You.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say,There! That's the truth!

The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Dreams are like puzzles. When all the pieces are missing, it is up to us to find them and decide where and how they fit in.

It ain't just about writing on some documents,author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

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.