Author Quotes - Page 9

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I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.

What are the messages that you are entertaining?

A voice, a tone, a feelingDeep inside, growing bigger and brighter.Shining against the dark area in my soul.Telling everyone that I haven’t leftI am here!

He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.

The world is a better place when you smile.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

Always walk as if you’re running late, it’s healthier.

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

Finally... I'm here...

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

No matter what happens in your life, keep an open heart and mind with a gentle smile. It's the true beauty of the heart.

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

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

It has been passed down in many texts of old and by the word of mouth; that no matter the strength of the weapons of man, there is only one thing powerful enough to defeat them all... The power of love.

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.

Never judge an author by her haters.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect.

Being positive at the worst time is the best time.

We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

Do you know what the best thing about a conscience is? You can never mute it. It's an unlimited stream of ideas flowing into your mind.

Even though it’s pleasing to boast about achievements I have earned in my generation, nothing makes me more content in the world than just having the exciting opportunity to share my passion of work with the public. What is even more exhilarating, is being able (having the capability) to spend quality time with my loving wife, (Gloria) and family doing what I love most in the world -- writing. Their total well-being and health, along with my health too means everything to me. I have had my fair share of narrow escapes in my life to know how important my family, and health are to me. I will never take that for granted again – ever.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle!

Sometimes you just have to find the majesty in yourself and other things to truly appreciate life.

Your beauty is tragic.It is the sweetest sin,Heaven ever created!

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning in a bottle…

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

Author:A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape with wanton disregard. His days are spent picking up all the stray free words he can handle and squirreling them away for later use. Subsequently, (days, months or years later) working by candlelight and hidden away in his dank, musty secluded lair, the rogue simply rearranges the collected words on yellowed bond with a sharpened quill ink pen fashioned from the tail feather of a bald-headed vulture.Once finished, the dastardly cur audaciously attempts to sell those assembled pages for fleeting fame and profit.

What you do is your choice. You can make good or bad choices, but there will never be any right or wrong to who you are.

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

God has a plan for the future and, because He is sovereign, it will come to pass. You can count on it!

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.

For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science Fiction is so important is because SF authors create the future. They bring through ideas, technology, and new thought, put it all down in written and spoken word, and then send it out into mass consciousness. When enough people (a critical mass) think about and truly consider the plausibility of a concept, it becomes reality. Think William Gibson, who in 1982's "Burning Chrome" coined "cyberspace". Few grasped the concept at the time, but as the internet took hold in the 1990's, we not only had a word to describe our experience, we had a definition and an understanding, as well. Coincidence?

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness…you wish they were there to enjoy it. I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is I’m here smiling & I know how much she’d like to see that.

Courtroom experience is one of the most important factors that is crucial for a successful career of a lawyer

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body

I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need to. Then the following steps; proofread and publish. Of course before you just go into writing, it would be a good idea to do some charts of each chapter...what you would want each one to be about and have a character list with their personalities and how they will come into play in your book. I mean, you wouldn't just want to go all crazy and jot down all kinds of random stuff at once...trust me, you'll go crazy. With writing, you take it as it comes, go with your own flow.-Nina Jean Slack

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts