Author Quotes - Page 2

Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.

We live in the information age and the sheer volume of it being available everywhere, creates a need for information that has value. Yes, we can look anything up on Google but who has the time? Can we trust that the information comes from a trustworthy source? Your experience has given you a deep knowing of your subject matter. You have insights and ideas that others may not figure out on their own. You are holding a roadmap that has great value to someone. What has been stopping you from sharing your knowledge? Perhaps you have been afraid to put yourself out there because of a fear of rejection? Let me get straight to the point. Get over it right now! Ponder the following quote for a moment and then move on with the decision to write rather than not to write, because not to write is not “to be”. You deny yourself and your audience. You have had an incredible journey to get to where you are and have amassed experience and knowledge. Now combine that with your unique voice and be heard. You are already an expert. Accept it.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock!

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting next to me. And, if it was in fact my actual guardian angel, then it probably would have been poor form not to offer a few chips to extend an olive branch.

Phil Wohl

I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you to spend the next couple of hours reading this book and then, in the next ten days implementing what you’ve learned here. When you realize the value of the impact your book will make, your decision to write will be a no-brainer! Using this very simple, powerful system you will soon be thinking about your second book, and third book. You will want to recruit your spouse, children and parents to write. You will understand that everyone has a unique voice whose legacy is to be forever captured in print. They key is to begin. Dreaming about getting started is not going to make it happen. Action is everything so make a promise to yourself to commit and take action.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

Rayne Hall

All writing is rewriting.

John Green

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh. A tormented writer? I personally wouldn't have put those two words together. Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree to that. But writers, through the formation of our characters, delve so often into the depths of a vast range of emotions that we earn the advantage. For we've examined every little thrumming, fracture, spark, pang, and darkening of the heart to a point that we understand and appreciate the necessity and strength of emotions as well as the cause and effects manipulating them. We understand. We can imagine. We sympathize. Our knowledge is power over the torment of emotional ignorance. I would suggest that those truly tormented are the readers of our works because those poor souls shall never know with such clarity and sentiment all the tiny little details that make our characters breath, move, and live before our very eyes. Perhaps, if torment does lurk among writers, it comes simply through knowing more about an imagined friend than can ever be adequately expressed in words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

Richelle E. Goodrich

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

Kevin James Breaux

I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong

Vicki M. Taylor

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

Benjamin Bayani

I am always positive, prosperous-minded and filled with self-confidence.

LaNina King

Time is a funny thing, it can give and it can take away; and a single moment in time can truly change one’s life forever! The best kind of love is unexpected, unexplainable, undeniable, and unimaginable.Your sweet scent will forever be with me, reminding me of the love we once shared. I will breathe in the memories until we meet again.Before you act on what you have been told, consider your source. It may simply be assumption on their part, and that can be far from fact.Why stand back and wait for someone to fail when you can stand up and offer your support?Love is when the sound of your partner’s snoring lulls you to sleep, and it acts as a reminder that they are there by your side.Building a wall around your heart is a voluntary imprisonment to which only you have the key. Open your heart to life’s possibilities!

Donna L. Jones

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

Shandy L. Kurth

I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.

Shandy L. Kurth

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Steve López

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

My favorite thing is when people underestimate me.

Cat Spydell

You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you.

Katrina Rose

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

T.S Eliot

But as an escort it’s our duty to hold their attention and play with their heads. The one between their ears and the one in their pants.

S.K Logsdon

It's more important to be read than paid.

S.L. Walker

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

Eugène Ionesco

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.

Michael Houbrick

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Leslie Austin

Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.

Doug Pedersen

The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?

Doug Pedersen

Chances multiply when you take them.

Doug Pedersen

Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.

Doug Pedersen

When your defenses are down, it's alarming and beautiful - all that strength contained in a glass jar of innocence." He swallowed. "I've loved you since the moment you realized the astronomical odds of us meeting like that, because in that brief second, I watched you suddenly open your heart to the possibility of something magical happening - something unexpected.

Lynda Meyers

Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur...In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it.

Lynda Meyers

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.

C.Toni Graham

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Jamie McCall

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.

Ian McEwan

Finally... I'm here...

K Hari Kumar

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

Violette Leduc

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

Carew Papritz

VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!Birgit Von Schondorf

Birgit Von Schondorf

A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

Cynthia Batten

A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten

Cynthia Batten

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

Sara Sheridan

I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness…you wish they were there to enjoy it. I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is I’m here smiling & I know how much she’d like to see that.

Brandon Villasenor

Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop

Vanessa Vanney Thompson

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Money doesn't make the things you need. People do.

Raven Moore

Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.

Raven Moore

Being positive at the worst time is the best time.

Raven Moore

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization—of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny.

Carew Papritz

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

Laini Taylor

There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good?...You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life...Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone.

Oprah Winfrey

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

Darnaya Darice

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

Michael J. Kannengieser

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

K Hari Kumar

If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!

Leslie Austin

Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a moronic drinking game that later evolved into the imperial measurement system.

Sorin Suciu

pssst . . .your soul is calling you to freedom love and play!

Jan Porter

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