Author Quotes - Page 6

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.

Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth!

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are!

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

We create our destiny by dreaming bigger than most people would think reasonable, by believing in ourselves more than most people would think sensible, by making decisions that most people would think illogical and continuing to act way beyond the point that most people would have given up.

My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it.

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a song written by a team, a listener can sense that they aren't hearing an expression of a solitary individual's pain or joy, but that of a virtual conjoined person? Can we tell that an individual singer might actually represent a collective, that he might have multiple identities? Does that make the sentiments expressed more poetically universal? Dan eliminating some portion of the authorial voice make a piece of music more accessible and the singer more empathetic?

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.For they are the ones who hide the most sadness—.

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.

Feels so good to be quoted

Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.

Life is like a diamond. More you trim it, more it becomes beautiful...

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today? For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince Lombardi. Nothing surprises me. I never grew-up with prejudices against anyone. I don't care what color you are or where you came from. This sort of stuff to me never made sense. You see I grew up in an "educated family." Education teaches you not to be so ignorant.

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him.

Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?

You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

Self-acceptance is self-love in action.

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.

A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.

Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way

You can have practically anything you want in this world, if you have great credit.

There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good?...You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life...Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone.

A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.

The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!

I have fallen in love with writing, unknowingly. Instead of thinking whether people will like what I write or not, I decide to write only for one person- myself! I told myself that ‘I as an author is going to entertain I as an audience.’ And everything changed that day!When you find your passion, don’t succumb to the pressure of succeeding.Follow your passion just for yourself and for the sheer joy of it. You will see amazing things will follow- that’s a guarantee.