Authors Quotes - Page 5

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

An author's job is to make you aware of your feelings while you continue to feel them.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Transform into your dream.

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

I read your diary. I KNOW

In order to be heard, an author must have readers...

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within.

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

We write to give strength to the soul of the spirit.

You -have- to love your monster.

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.

If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

I am a perfectionist in spirit

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

Yes, I am an author. I have written some beautiful love stories and witnessed some ugly relationships.

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

Bernard of Clairvaux shared with Goethe and Balzac the art of charging narratives with his own charisma (and this is probably the only context in which those three names can be mentioned in one breath). On the surface self-representation was not the purpose of such narratives; they presented themselves as fiction or as commentaries on scripture. Let me suggest the word 'autography' to describe the process. 'Autography' is writing yourself into your own composition, not by describing yourself, but by infusing your own presence into it. The reader feels your presence, but sees someone or something else.

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.

Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with you!

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.