Author Quotes

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you!

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

Paul W. Feenstra

Write something today that you future self will be proud of.

ANYAELE SAM CHIYSON’S LAW OF OBJECTIVITY : You must be aware of who you are, use your ability to do all things right, and have all things turn out well for you without hindrance through personal feelings, prejudice, impedance or encumbrance to make your mark impeccably and in a way that is free from any subjective preference and full of excellence.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.

Benny Bellamacina

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.

NO SURROGATE CAN BIRTHYOUR GREATNESSSO LET THEM STEAL TIME WILL REVEAL

Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW

Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

IN LIFE ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO WASH THEIR OWNBACK

Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST....DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY!SPEAK UP!

Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF

Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.

top connecting with the world. Connect with yourself on your beach. Stop thinking. Stop analyzing. Start feeling. Start dreaming.

Kim Ha Campbell

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

Caron Kamps Widden

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

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

Bernard Kelvin Clive

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

Jennifer Renson

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Don’t write like your mentors

Bernard Kelvin Clive

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

Belle Whittington

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

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Lisa Marbly-Warir

Tempting as your offer is, I won’t go home with you. I can’t sleep with you, Justin. You say it doesn’t have to be that way, but you and I both know that’s the way it would be. You’re a risk I can’t afford to take.

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

April Mae Monterrosa

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

Lee Bice-Matheson-Matheson

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

R.K. King

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few.

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Jonathan Kieran

There is no apology for passion

Jennifer Renson

They're Coming.

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

Ben Abix

So I never told you about my sexual orientation - it means we were never close friends. My body my business.

What is Religion according to you?“Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.

Vishwas Mudagal

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

Cormac McCarthy

Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.

Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.

There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

They fought because they loved the dance, and the weight of a sword in their hands. The clash and spark of metal and hiss of flame was like music written just for them. They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior's stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

The Warrior Heir Cinda Williams Chima pg. 426

Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.

Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it.

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!

Joyce Middleton

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

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