Authors Quotes

all that really matters to me is that there are critics.

The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern'sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.

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Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

Every day, live in a way that honors who you are.

there is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude,one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose.

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

I write to believe in goodness.

Drizzle happiness wherever you go.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

We are writing the history of our time.

Her words are her wings. She's flying.

You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

Why do you think you are always right?" Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.

I'm going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.

It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.

Writers are made, they are not born.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the apex of human existence, and that to work at an ordinary office job was a betrayal of that life, and I had to pursue that life at all costs. Management consulting, law school, med school, those were fine for other people — I didn’t judge! — but I was an artist. I was super special. I was sparkly. I would walk another path.And I would walk it alone. That was another thing I knew about being an artist: You didn’t need other people. Other people were a distraction. My little chrysalis of genius was going to seat one and one only.

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

When is now.

The Imagination of the Mind is the Treasury that although liable to theft, never ceases to grow.

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.