Authors Quotes - Page 4

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Ace Antonio Hall

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes

Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not writing at all, feels far worse.

I read your diary. I KNOW.

The only man she ever loved. And hated.

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention--a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.

With so many book projects filling mind and heart, it feels similar to pregnancy. Your own books are like your children—you have to give birth to them, raise them, and do your best to make sure they live happily. You know, you just HAVE TO put into writing all of those thoughts, words and ideas appearing and growing in your head. Otherwise, life will make no sense without it.

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

Shannon L. Alder

They're Coming.

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it.

Shannon L. Alder

Our friendship has survived betrayals and our ambitions. Even death is afraid to come between us. Welcome back to my life." ~ Fidelis O Mkparu, author of 'Love's Affliction' ‪#‎authors‬, ‪#‎friendship‬

Fidelis O Mkparu

Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.Be yourself!

Christine Willson

Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Shannon L. Alder

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

Ashly Lorenzana

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.”~ Christa Desir

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

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

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

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

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

Josh Alan Friedman

I thought it was a novel.”“It is.”“What’s it about??”“You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.”“This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble,” I said.“Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

William Strunk Jr.

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, “Edgar Allen Poe” I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.

Elinor Florence

Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.

Unknown

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

Elizabeth George

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique—nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts. It's a difficult notion to wrap your brain around, and yet it reminds me that amidst the innumerable stories told throughout the ages, a distinctly new one rests on the tip of an author's pen.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-necked old professor became a convert to Spiritualistm; it was not that Richard had any problems believing in ghosts - Richard believed, with no problems or contradictions, in everything - but Conan Doyle was preaching, and it showed through the words. Richard was young, and innoncent in his fashion, and believed that authors should be trusted, and that there should be nothing hidden beneath the surface of a story.

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they’re fortunate and lucky beyond anyone’s imagination. It remains a shock to me that I’ve had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I’d written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I’ve managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder.

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

Kerry E. Wagner

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

Kerry E. Wagner

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

Kerry E. Wagner

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

Kerry E. Wagner

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

Kerry E. Wagner

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

Kerry E. Wagner

An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

DRAMA: Be careful about being baited into the personal battles and confusion of others. If you want to help someone out emotionally, be certain he or she has made a commitment to the sacrifice before you intervene for his or her success. If you don’t, you’re likely to be drained of all your healthy energy with his or her selfish petty, pitiful pretending and negotiating. Be encouraged but more importantly if you can’t make it better, whatever you do don’t make it worse, for them and especially yourself

Kerry E. Wagner

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

Shannon L. Alder

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story

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