Author Quotes - Page 19

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.

The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say,His money is but lost, or thrown away.

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!Birgit Von Schondorf

Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.

Simon Stiegler, Literatur, Belletristik, Crime, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, children, Adult, books, author,Autor

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

When the nightcomes to break my heart,I think of you.

Without the author there is nothing.

Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.

Today I write,riots with insite!Tomorrow I read,take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write,and got no gripe!

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Chris Salamone has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop.

As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college dropout education, Carl managed to reach six figures as a mobile home lot manager when the trailer park industry boomed in the early nineties. He decorated his accomplishments with a large house, yachts, and weekly morale shindigs for his salesmen bursting with open bars and filet mignon. However, my mother was by far his prettiest accessory.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.

Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know with ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook.

God is an author, and we are His best story.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

There's something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn't exist & your not sure when it will return, but there's something beautiful in facing tragedy, a new type of being within you is born and one whom is more fearless than ever before.

Her tears were as much anger and frustration as sadness.

Chris enjoys spending quality time while cooking, wine tasting, attending opera, playing golf, and practicing martial arts – JiuJitsu.

Don't try to worry about the things that could've happen. Just wonder about the things that can still happen and fight for them. Because anything worth fighting for will happen in time.

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

I like writing multiple stories at once. It's fun to change my mindset and get transformed into a different story when I feel like it.

Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic