Author Quotes - Page 5

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

Will Advise

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

Erica Jong

Every programmer is an author.

Sercan Leylek

Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.

Martha Hamlett

The Raven's author_ _ _Walked down the road, abbreviated so we're told. _ _ The bus came by and one departed,That is to say, he got this. _ _ _Come on now, it's time to play. When water's cold it is that way. _ _ _Put the pieces together, then roll you die. Natural 20! Flying higt!Find the boxes, nearly there:Level up to 7, here is there.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and "fall into a vortex" as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. Her "scribbling suit" consisted of a black woollen pinafore on which she could wipe her pen at will, and a cap of the same material, adorned with a cheerful red bow, into which she bundled her hair when the decks were cleared for action. This cap was a beacon to the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept their distance, merely popping in their heads semi-occasionally, to ask, with interest, "Does genius burn, Jo?" They did not always venture even to ask this question, but took an observation of the cap, and judged accordingly. If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on; in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew; and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor. At such times the intruder silently withdrew; and not until the red bow was seen gayly erect upon the gifted brow, did any one dare address Jo.

Louisa May Alcott

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

Adam Steven Page

Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness.

Chris Salamone

Chris Salamone’s another focus in the book was on the declining level of society that is characterized by an attitude of entitlement with principles of leadership.

Chris Salamone

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

Sandra Bellamy

If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach.

Anamika Mishra

Humbleness, modest and down to earth that recognize the real power and true sense of values towards the achievement of good life and enduring everlasting qualities.

Chris Salamone

The first and foremost leadership quality is Honesty, the business and its employees are a reflection of a leader and as a result the ethical behavior will be followed by everyone in the team

Chris Salamone

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

Funny

Chris Salamone’s law program focuses on guest lecturers that are taken by the members of the Department of Justice and attorneys

Chris Salamone

Don’t ever yell at me. I don’t yell, so talk to me in a regular voice.

Margaret Aranda

Happiness is a reflection of how you perceive the moment

Jane Emery

Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

Douglas Adams

*Persistence is more important than perfection. If at first you don’t succeed, it doesn’t matter as long as you always try, try again; *Small improvements, made consistently, add up; *You cannot fail unless you quit. What most people call failures are merely unsuccessful experiments. Failures are bumps on the road as long as your story remains a work in progress; *You can always do better with what you already have - and often, it’s much smarter to find ways to do so than to invest time and money trying something entirely new as your next one sure thing; *And most importantly, being good doesn’t matter nearly as much as being slightly better than yesterday.

Johnny B. Truant

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Samuel Johnson

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

Britt Holewinski

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

Stanley Victor Paskavich

The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs – the word is not too extreme – to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us.

Victor Hugo

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.

Daniel Marques

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

Kate Atkinson

In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me.

Xue Mo

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!

Stuart J. Scesney

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!

Stuart J. Scesney

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

Alisha "Priti" Kirpalani

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!

Stuart J. Scesney

Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.

Stuart J. Scesney

This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn’t look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression

Stephen Richards

Beside every great writer is a great listener.

Nanette L. Avery

Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn’t hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.

Kathy Parks

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet.

Cédric Klapisch

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

Tracy Millosovich

It’s like people immediately imagine me sitting in some gothic, sweeping castle in Edinburgh, a piece of fine bone china full of English tea next to my neat writing station. They think that my car, my purse, my everything was financed by my lucrative but somehow not too time consuming writing career. I’ve even had one guy ask me if my hand cramps at signings. While I wanted to give a snarky, “Yes, just like Tom Brady’s does,” I can’t pull off snarky. My sarcasm immediately goes into b**ch territory

Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

Dashiell Hammett

The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author does not precede the works, he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and recomposition of fiction. In fact, if we are accustomed to presenting the author as a genius, as a perpetual surging of invention, it is because, in reality, we make him function in exactly the opposite fashion. One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverse is, one has an ideological production). The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.In saying this, I seem to call for a form of culture in which fiction would not be limited by the figure of the author…

Michel Foucault

As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to saying that the author is the genial creator of a work in which he deposits, with infinite wealth and generosity, an inexhaustible world of significations. We are used to thinking that the author is so different from all other men, and so transcendent with regard to all languages that, as soon as he speaks, meaning begins to proliferate, to proliferate indefinitely.

Michel Foucault

Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, “sacralized” and “sacralizing” figures) to the extent that authors became subject to punishment, that is, to the extent that discourses could be transgressive. In our culture (and doubtless in many others), discourse was not originally a product, a thing, a kind of goods; it was essentially an act _ an act placed in the bipolar field of the sacred and the profane, the licit and the illicit, the religious and the blasphemous. Historically, it was a gesture fraught with risks before becoming goods caught up in a circuit of ownership.

Michel Foucault

It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the real and exterior individual who produced it; instead, the name seems always to be present, marking off the edges of the text, revealing, or at least characterizing, its mode of being. The author’s name manifests the appearance of a certain discursive set and indicates the status of this discourse within a society and a culture. It has no legal status, nor is it located in the fiction of the work; rather, it is located in the break that founds a certain discursive construct and its very particular mode of being. As a result, we could say that in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the “author-function”, while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer_ it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor_ it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer_ but not an author. The author-function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.

Michel Foucault

Keep Reading.Keep Writing.Keep Pushing yourself!And never stop learning!We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".

Darynda Jones

Raising d'être(reason for being)

Jennifer Pierre

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

C.S. Woolley

And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!

Douglas Adams

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

Edward Gorey

Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would go every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life is that the days aren't long enough to write all the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts I'm thinking. I've finished the second draft of my book and am going to begin the third tomorrow morning at half-past seven. It's the sweetest book you ever saw— it is, truly. I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in the morning to dress and eat before beginning; then I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so tired that I'm limp all over.

Jean Webster

Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets.

Lara Biyuts

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Jean Webster

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

David Foster Wallace

Did you know that many people can not "see" the Man in the Moon? Their eyes and brains cannot put together the "face:" the two eyes, the nose, and the mouth. It's not mentioned to belittle anyone. It is mentioned for awareness, and for scientific knowledge of the human brain. For in fact, the Man in the Moon most certainly sees us.

Margaret Aranda

A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think.

Margaret Aranda

Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don't hold anything back.

B.A. Gabrielle

I like writing multiple stories at once. It's fun to change my mindset and get transformed into a different story when I feel like it.

B.A. Gabrielle

Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it.

B.A. Gabrielle

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