Quotes by Authors - Page 23

You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen to be one of those holding the pen, that's all.
Etienne de L'Amour
The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.
Stephen Fischer
Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that – all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, this may mean you’ll never be published but that’s a risk we all take every single time we set hands to keyboard or pen to paper. For me, if I can sit back at the end of a project and say, ‘yes, I stayed honest, I said what I wanted to say, and I made it sing to the best of my ability’, then I’m happy enough. Of course, if anyone wants to buy the damned thing off me when I’m done, that’s jam I won’t refuse.
Celine Kiernan
My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.
Gene Wolfe
A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating.
Bill Johnson
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty
Alison Wong
Good fiction makes the truth believable.
Tarrant Smith
Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.
Walt Shiel
I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.
Pat Conroy
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
Horace Walpole
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'Connor
I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.
Joe Coomer
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
Robert B. Parker
Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.
Kim Edwards
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Stephen E. Ambrose
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
Jamaica Kincaid
Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.
T.L. Crain
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.
Milton Lomask
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.
Stephen King
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.
Lisa Cron
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
Virginia Woolf
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
Jennifer Crusie
Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!
Michael J. Sullivan
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
Anne Lamott
Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.
Valerie Sherwood
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
Nora Roberts
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.
Miranda July
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Bernard Cornwell
If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either
James M. Cain
Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar.
Amit Kalantri
Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.
Amit Kalantri
Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.
Dean Koontz
People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.
Idries Shah
You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.''Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.''Or an execution,' Horace said.
John Flanagan
...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.
Angela Carter
Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.
Shawn Lukas
Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with, he was my imaginary friend.
Shawn Lukas
And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated.
Peter Ackroyd
If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!
Thomm Quackenbush
Nice enough?” he asked, tendons tightening in his neck like he intended to Hulk out on me. “Did you just call my kiss ‘nice enough’?
Kylie Scott
To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.
Leslie Le Mon
Play with your ideals and laugh at the limitations of your mundane life.
Miranda J. Barrett
In life, we are all playing the game of thrones one way or the other
Ikechukwu Izuakor
The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.
Simon Sinek
First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.
T.F. Hodge
I don't ever react to a situation. My preference is to reflect upon the circumstances & act as if I were a baby who is in possession of a new toy to play with.
Yogesh Datta D.
The beach is a natural park, without the greenery but the sand is a natural toy.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!
Shannon L. Alder
Play invites participation.
Brian Goodwin
A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.
Rachelle Doorley
...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose!
Deyth Banger
Cascando"why not merely the despaired ofoccasion ofwordshedis it not better abort than be barrenthe hours after you are gone are so leadenthey will always start dragging too soonthe grapples clawing blindly the bed of wantbringing up the bones the old lovessockets filled once with eyes like yoursall always is it better too soon than neverthe black want splashing their facessaying again nine days never floated the lovednor nine monthsnor nine livessaying againif you do not teach me I shall not learnsaying again there is a lasteven of last timeslast times of begginglast times of lovingof knowing not knowing pretendinga last even of last times of sayingif you do not love me I shall not be lovedif I do not love you I shall not lovethe churn of stale words in the heart againlove love love thud of the old plungerpestling the unalterablewhey of wordsterrified againof not lovingof loving and not youof being loved and not by youof knowing not knowing pretendingpretendingI and all the others that will love youif they love youunless they love you
Samuel Beckett
To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you..."Dexter: You seem uncertain. It's uncomfortable, isn't it? Just when you think you've answered all the questions, another one smacks you in the face. Life, life, life. Life is just like that. Which is why I prefer death."But in the end some people play well their role others can't play it.
Deyth Banger
By manipulating the physical configuration of [any situation], you make it produce a subset of the infinite pattern of [possibilities]. And even if you don't know how to play [above situation], you can still play with it.
Ian Bogost
You play on the ice... you get what you should get.
Deyth Banger
Memories come back... the whole beginng comes out with a new end.
Deyth Banger
As always we could talk... over and over... here I am locked in time, so far I have plenty of it.
Deyth Banger
Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening to the compositions of others in an effort to contribute to the whole. We don't chose whether to engage, only how to; we either harmonize or create dissonance. Our words, our deeds, our very presence create and leave impressions in the minds of others just as a writer makes impressions with their words. Who you are is an unfolding narrative. You came from nothing and will return there eventually. Instead of taking ourselves so seriously all the time, we can discover the playful irony of a story that has never been told in quite this way before. -- Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs
Stephen Batchelor
At an age when most children love to play with toys, he played with weapons.
Nawab Shafath Ali Khan