Author Quotes - Page 8

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

Kevin James Breaux

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a book worth reading. Not willing to go there? Do yourself and the world a favor: Don't write it until you're ready to do so. Only then is it your truest artist being heard. And only then will the world want to hear what you have to say."-Wendy K. Williamson 9/25/14

Wendy K. Williamson

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Diana Wynne Jones

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse. An inner compass is evident in her work. Pieces reflect both past and present dilemmas; while showcasing her victories in overcoming these obstacles ~ all from her faith based perspective. Light touches of modernism play hand in hand with old world strokes, offering highly visceral readings.

Earl M. Coleman

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Donna Lynn Hope

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

Juliet M Sampson

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

Nicohle Christopherson

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

Andrè Michael Pietroschek

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

Susan J. McIntire

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

Alessandra Torre

If you want to be a writer, then write.

I. Marlene King

There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

Susan J. McIntire

why do people pour water on concrete expecting something to grow from it" AP

And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway.

There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

We weave together the many skeins of our words,Into poems and stories and books,And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

As far as I get as more I learn. As now I don't think that ordinary person is Stephen King... as far as now I think that he looks at people's behavior and look as far as they can reach... ( - Awesome as that!)

The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Toba Beta

Just Because I Write About Horror, And The Supernatural, Etc...Doesn't Mean I Am A Monster Or A Bad Person.

If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!

Robin Sacredfire

It's raining, raining words!

Wyketha K Parkman

Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.

Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

Lindsay McKenna

He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.

Lindsay McKenna

Without the author there is nothing.

Michael E. Bierman

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

Margaret Atwood

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

Shannon L. Alder

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

Alberto Manguel

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Chris Everheart

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Don Roff

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