Author Quotes - Page 6

If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success.

Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas.

When you're sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you're passionate and sick, you'll find a way to write down something.

Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone.

Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

Don't wonder why your time hasn't come yet. When you plant a seed, it always takes a while to grow. Don't be hasty. Think, plan, hustle.

If you have a surprise idea, don't let it go! No matter if it's 4 AM, 6 AM or 12 AM, don't let it go! It might have been a great one!

Life is like a diamond. More you trim it, more it becomes beautiful...

Security is superstitious. It doesn't exist in nature

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are never going to get the results and take empowered action when our mindsets are in opposition to our desires

authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world

Johnnie Dent Jr.

The true Entrepreneurship doesn't means to be your own boss, rather it is the thirst to follow your heart and work with the team of visionaries!

Yes, yes, yes we say,without a thought for the day.Running and fretting to make ends meetrushing from Susie to Joe and to Pete.Our lives, in upheaval, have turned to a tizzy,never completing, because we're too busy.All we must do for a tranquil soulis employ a word, just one, called NO.

J. Grant Howard

Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!

William Shakespeare

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

...about a spiritual path, seeing the validity in all paths, and knowing that religion can help or hamper the path. The teachings in every religion are valuable. It is humanity that has bogged down in dogma and rules. Loving and practicing the teachings that ring true is the key.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.

Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!

Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.

An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.

I love every single character in my books. Killing a character of causes me physical pain... It's like ripping a band-aid off too fast.

Do you know what the best thing about a conscience is? You can never mute it. It's an unlimited stream of ideas flowing into your mind.

Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle!

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.

Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!

Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.

Your imagination is a very important thing because nobody can take that away from you. No one can look in your head and read your thoughts.

Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don’t search for you they don’t find you. They don’t take notice of you. They don’t even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia!

Lily Amis

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

Age does not matter if you're chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you'll see some progress.

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.

A review is a double-edged sword. It will either get people interested, or it might drive people away before they even click "buy".

A good way to never run out of ideas? Surround yourself with interesting people, then think about how you can make them into characters.

Always make sure to write down whatever you can remember dreaming about. Dreams are just dormant ideas. It's up to you how you use them.

I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have a never ending imagination.

When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.

Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the intrepid spirits whom share the present as well as with those souls whom are not yet born.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author

Kalyan C. Kankanala

Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?

Richelle E. Goodrich

A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.

He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.

A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.

My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.

Washington Irving

The biggest thing for aspiring writers I would say is that writing is hard work. You can’t sustain the fantasy that it should somehow be otherwise for you because you are more special or more committed than other aspiring writers. You aren’t sitting down to be entertained by the gods or to entertain yourself. At times it can be a thrill and it feels more like play, but we are easily deceived by whatever pleasures or rewards writing can offer. Exhilarating work is still work. Is it work, or is it play? And the answer is “yes.” Does it sometimes feel like it comes easily or naturally? Yes. But did it really come easily? No. Writing doesn’t offer the rhythmic endorphin hit you get scrolling down the screen clicking on memes. Are you up for the work it is going to take to become successful as a writer? It is going to be harder than you think. You are submitting to forces and to a process that you can’t fully control. There is maybe a tiny bit more control if you self-publish, and there is no shame in doing that, but even that is going to introduce hard work. Probably harder than you think. If my next novel can’t find a home, I’m not above self-publishing it in some capacity and then moving on to the next project.

Brian K. Friesen

the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body

Medicine Turtle

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

Caroline George

Life is totally unbelievable. Enjoy it at its fullest, with no regrets.

Gloria E. Gherardi

Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.

Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway.

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.

Be good, or good at it.

Belo Miguel Cipriani

My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.

Christy Leigh Stewart

...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

Vladimir Nabokov

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