Author Quotes - Page 9

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Don Roff

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?

�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.

Passion + Purpose = Prosperity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light.

Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.

Belle Ami

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

Mary Sage Nguyen

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!

Benny Bellamacina

The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.

Shandy L. Kurth

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does.

Posture reflects your attitude.

Cindy Ann Peterson

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait.

Michelle M. Pillow

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.

Rodman Philbrick

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life

Charleston Parker

I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.

Alex Rosa

I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need to. Then the following steps; proofread and publish. Of course before you just go into writing, it would be a good idea to do some charts of each chapter...what you would want each one to be about and have a character list with their personalities and how they will come into play in your book. I mean, you wouldn't just want to go all crazy and jot down all kinds of random stuff at once...trust me, you'll go crazy. With writing, you take it as it comes, go with your own flow.-Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

Charleston Parker

The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.

Michael J. Kannengieser

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Joseph Dalton Hooker

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

What you're going to do is apologize to Lucian. My f**k partner, my lover, my protector. And my best friend. Right now."?

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.

Elizabeth George

No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book.

Prakhar Srivastav

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

You are the only author of your book that matters.

Suzette R. Hinton

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

Every book has its ancestors

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others.

Danny L Deaubé

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

Michel Houellebecq

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books...

Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses.

Margaret Aranda

Think about it. If I say to you, "Oh! I wrote a 500-page book on that!" Don’t your eyebrows go up?

Margaret Aranda

If you've never experienced something and don't know how to write about it, then make it a fantasy book. It gives you a lot of freedom.

Success is not about what you have; instead, it is about who you are becoming.

-Farshad Asl “No Excuses Mindset”

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.

Christopher Seufert

There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients.

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