Author Quotes - Page 12

There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

Don't dare try to be heroes.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.

Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it.

Emilyann Girdner

Her tears were as much anger and frustration as sadness.

I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.

Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know will ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook.

Stephanie Lahart

When you don't have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that's when the best works are born.

Vishwas Mudagal

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

Charlotte Eriksson

A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.

Ann Marie Frohoff

Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.

Self-acceptance is self-love in action.

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.

George Ivanovic

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

Darnell Lamont Walker

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at dinner or in the kitchen should be mentioned only in case if all this has a strong consequent relation to the plot, but as an author, I can’t help mentioning all this, with no particular reason, just for love for my characters, desiring to give them something nice and pleasant. Melancholy grows a platinum rose. Affection grows a double rose.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

E.A. Bucchianeri

I will not mention the name (and what bits of it I happen to give here appear in decorous disguise) of that man, that Franco-Hungarian writer... I would rather not dwell upon him at all, but I cannot help it— he is surging up from under my pen. Today one does not hear much about him; and this is good, for it proves that I was right in resisting his evil spell, right in experiencing a creepy chill down my spine whenever this or that new book of his touched my hand. The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay, an irresistible effect on small rodents. Having mastered the art of verbal invention to perfection, he particularly prided himself on being a weaver of words, a title he valued higher than that of a writer; personally, I never could understand what was the good of thinking up books, of penning things that had not really happened in some way or other; and I remember once saying to him as I braved the mockery of his encouraging nods that, were I a writer, I should allow only my heart to have imagination, and for the rest rely upon memory, that long-drawn sunset shadow of one’s personal truth.I had known his books before I knew him; a faint disgust was already replacing the aesthetic pleasure which I had suffered his first novel to give me. At the beginning of his career, it had been possible perhaps to distinguish some human landscape, some old garden, some dream- familiar disposition of trees through the stained glass of his prodigious prose... but with every new book the tints grew still more dense, the gules and purpure still more ominous; and today one can no longer see anything at all through that blazoned, ghastly rich glass, and it seems that were one to break it, nothing but a perfectly black void would face one’s shivering soul. But how dangerous he was in his prime, what venom he squirted, with what whips he lashed when provoked! The tornado of his passing satire left a barren waste where felled oaks lay in a row, and the dust still twisted, and the unfortunate author of some adverse review, howling with pain, spun like a top in the dust.

Vladimir Nabokov

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Jamie L. Harding

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Lillian R. Melendez

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Jamie L. Harding

There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.

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