Author Quotes

I've written you sixty-seven love poems.Here’s another one for you.But really, for me.These poems are the candles that I light with the fire you have ignited in me.I place this candle here and another thereso even if the stars have argued with the moonand are sulking away in a corner, you can still find your way to me.Sixty-eight poems now. What does the future hold for us?Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect?I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more. For what is the point of loveif by lighting these candlesour own flame loses its brightness?I know the good is more than the bad. Much more.I cannot wait to write you sixty-nine.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Be the author of your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a song written by a team, a listener can sense that they aren't hearing an expression of a solitary individual's pain or joy, but that of a virtual conjoined person? Can we tell that an individual singer might actually represent a collective, that he might have multiple identities? Does that make the sentiments expressed more poetically universal? Dan eliminating some portion of the authorial voice make a piece of music more accessible and the singer more empathetic?

~ David Byrne

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.

~ Suzy Kassem

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

~ Oliver Markus

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there 20, 30, 40 years from now, padding your old bones and time worn, weary soul.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

~ Latif Mercado

You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind!

~ Latif Mercado

It's Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!

~ Latif Mercado

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!

~ Latif Mercado

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!

~ Latif Mercado

My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget!

~ Latif Mercado

My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic!

~ Latif Mercado

Don't Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!

~ Latif Mercado

He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him.

~ Luke Taylor

I write romance stories and although I want it to be a beautiful work of art, I am afraid that I will live in the story I created in my mind. It's all in my mind I know, but sometimes, the romance becomes too ideal and realistic for me that I soon fall for the hero that was just a product of my imagination. I think that is both an fearful obstacle and a proof that somehow, you are succeeding to touch a reader's heart - even if it is yours.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart

~ Munia Khan

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...

~ Tim Perkins

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read.

~ Chuck Miceli

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

~ Solange Nicole

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story.

~ Ashley Ford

Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer.

~ Sarvesh Jain

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

The structure of a 'writing schedule' is only there as a frame. You provide the image, the emotion, and the sentiment in your own time.

~ Margaret Aranda

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is the ritual of immortality.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi