Author Quotes - Page 11

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

Stephanie Lahart

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust yourself. Believe in your instincts. Do what works best for YOU. Stay true to yourself and be good to yourself. Allow every decision that you make to empower, enrich, and add value to your life!

Stephanie Lahart

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

Stephanie Lahart

I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and what others do. I have no doubt that my books have much more value than nearly all others out there, and it wouldn't make sense for me to be an author if I couldn't see that, or if I saw the opposite, as I believe that, if we're not upgrading mankind, we're just making it lost and vulnerable to the claws of ignorance.

Robin Sacredfire

WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS.....

Muffin

Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth!

Charleston Parker

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

Charleston Parker

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.

I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating them, and prevent them from losing their pages over the years like a man loses his hair. But inventing the stories in them, filling new, empty pages with right words-- I can't do that. That's a very different trade. A famous writer once wrote, 'An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or magician-- but a magician, the enchanter, is in the ascendant.

Magic and mystery writing follow the same, time-tested, three-act structure to stage their drama; set the scene, build the suspense, reveal the answer. In magic, these phases are known as the pledge, the turn and the prestige.

Did you… need something?” he asked in a tight voice.tI swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say. The fear pricking at me, telling me I had one last chance to wimp out. To walk away.tBut I shook my head. No. Not this time.t“Yes,” I said simply. “I need something.”t“And what, may I ask, do you need?”tI met his eyes. “You.

Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

Israelmore Ayivor

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Michelle M. Pillow

If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.

it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it takes hours upon hours of no's to get to a yes, it takes many twists and turns with seemingly no end to the detours, it takes courage to face the unknowns - it takes and it takes and it takes - But then, like a flower opening its blossom - it gives.........

Rich Okun

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

April Mae Monterrosa

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

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