Authors Quotes - Page 3

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

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.

And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me?

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

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.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

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When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

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One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.

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

We encounter truth within.

I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer force of will and some clever word placement, I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.”~ Christa Desir

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

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.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

When the weakness of human soul conflict with writer's word , It will create self History.

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

Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention--a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

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

Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.

Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed that books can change people's lives. Especially ones where the author is sincere,and writes deep,thoughtful,touching things from their hearts."-Nina Jean Slack

Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open.

Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.

The Scribe"Under the wingsOf the feathered Goddess,And in the middleOf the three dancing women,The scribe comes aliveTo reveal mysteries hiddenThrough divine gifts givenThe scribe is drivenOn his sacred missionTo wake upAll the universe'sMen, women andHeavenly children.Under the seven rays of Aten,And from the age of just ten,The scribe comes aliveWith the fertile inkOf his luminous pen.Below the spectacle of the moon,And in the smile of the sun,The scribe is here to show usHow we are all one.

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

You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack

We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.

No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it’s a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don’t need anyone to confirm it.

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) ass

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

I hear you in the morning sun.

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent