Authors Quotes - Page 2

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place... Most, probably all, human beings get to do awful things and believe things that other human beings think they should be burned for believing, and they get to do and believe wonderful things too, and artists, writers, musicians, creators, actors, are nothing if not human beings.

Neil Gaiman

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

Jen Selinsky

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

Carl Henegan

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

Geraldine Solon

This is the best time to be an author.

Geraldine Solon

Be the CEO of your own career.

Julie Hedlund

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

Geraldine Solon

For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a review. It not only means a lot to us to know you enjoyed our work, it inspires us to write more! Thank you!

David SterlingA. Sterling

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Evelyn Waugh

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Ruth Rendell

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Virginia Woolf

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

D.H. Lawrence

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Love and respect are above any law

Uri Jerzy Nachimson

I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.

Steve C. Roberts

In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, “Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

Neal Stephenson

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Jorge Luis Borges

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Noël Coward

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

Robert Frost

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

Norman Mailer

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

H.G.Wells

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

Virginia Woolf

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.

Richard Flanagan

The only thing in life that's really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants--whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they're no good, I put it down. Maybe it's good after 100 pages, but I can't wait. The author lost.

Lee Marvin

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Zia Haider Rahman

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

Judith Briles

If you wait for God to descend to earth and save youfrom your fuck ups, you will be waiting until youdrop dead.

Sheeja Jose

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

Jonathan Galassi

You learn to run by running.

Sheeja Jose

Life is like a dream, when you wake up,you only have memories.

Sheeja Jose

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

Neil Gaiman

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might write a brilliant book, only to follow it up with something utterly mediocre. Or, and this was almost worse, one might have written a brilliant book but then turn out to be dead. Then there were those authors who started a series but never finished it.

Katarina Bivald

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

Matthew Pearl

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

Fennel Hudson

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into making their book. Just the indie author's manuscript, own currency, and persistence.

Mary Sage Nguyen

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no more books forthcoming from that person. Their future books died with them. In the past I have found a series of books and loved it so much that all I wanted to do was read and read and read those books for the rest of my life. Then I would find out that the author was dead. Had in fact been dead for many a year. This has happened to me several times.

Alison McGhee

As an author the question I get asked the most is, “why do you write?” My knee jerk response is, “Because I love it,” which is true, but not the whole truth. So here is my revised response to that question; “I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read exist in the world. I write because it becomes unbearable to hold so many stories in my head without a way to express them, but most importantly, I write to be true to myself.

Day Parker

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

Hilary Mantel

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

Gudjon Bergmann

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

Stanley Victor Paskavci

Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.

Clement Alexander Price

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

Joanna Penn

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Jorge Luis Borges

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

David Batterson

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Tushar Upreti

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says “A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.

J.D. Mader

Writing to please all readers is like cooking without seasoning …

Nanette L. Avery

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

Joshua Cohen

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

Annie Barrows

The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.

Conrad Williams

Imagination must be allowed to run free in our subconscious mind and when ready, it reveals its ideals to us in our conscious state.

Lee Bice-Matheson

Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.

Mary Gaitskill

Most people don't read books, but when they do, mine are the first, and that's enough for me.

Daniel Marques

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Samuel Johnson

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

Søren Kierkegaard

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Rick Moody

That's a good point," Professor Hirota said. "But there is one thing we ought to keep in mind in the study of man. Namely, that a human being placed in particular circumstances has the ability and the right to do just the opposite of what the circumstances dictate. The trouble is, we have this odd habit of thinking that men and light both act according to mechanical laws, which leads to some stunning errors. We set things up to make a man angry, and he laughs. We try to make him laugh, and again he does the opposite, he gets angry. Either way, though, he's still a human being."Hirota had enlarged the scope of the problem again."Well, then, what you're saying is, no matter what a human being does in a particular set of circumstances, he is being natural," said the novelist at the far end of the table."That's it," Hirota shot back. "It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the world just like him. We humans are simply incapable of imagining non-human actions or behavior. It's the writer's fault if we don't believe in his characters as human beings.

Sōseki Natsume

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