Author Quotes

My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

If you call yourself an authoress on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not. You are about as original as all those other witless twits writing the one millionth shitty Fifty Shades clone. Or maybe you're trying to show your 2000 fake Facebook friends that you are an empowered feminist who will not stand for sexist terminology. But you're not showing people that you are fighting the good fight, you're showing people that you are a sheep, who's trying just a little too hard to ride the current wave of idiotic political correctness. The word author is no more gender-discrimination than the word person. Do you call yourself a personess? No, of course not, because then you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says, Hello, I'm a retard.

~ Oliver Markus

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.

~ Felix Okoye

Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.

~ Ken Poirot

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

~ Elizabeth George

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

~ Elizabeth George

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.

~ Tim O'brien

Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Make your problems becomeopportunities instead ofobstacles.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I am the best author of my life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

~ Michelle C. Hillstrom

Creativity is salve for the soul

~ Phillip Gary Smith

A writer is a thought smith, he educates men to think for themselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am what I have ever read

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You never know what you will write until you write it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot write if you are not angry

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot write if you are not on fire

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana