Author Quotes

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful

~ John Green

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

~ Akira Kurosawa

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know, for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

~ Évariste Galois

And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.

~ Deyth Banger

Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.

~ Caroline George

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.

~ Jim George

A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns into a mouthpiece. He must hang on to his identity for dear life. In the end he must rely on his own judgment. It’s the only way to survive as a writer and an artist.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday identity. And these moments, when the characters come alive and the author disappears, take us into another world.

~ Hal Zina Bennett

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

~ Saleem Sharma

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it!

~ Debra L. Hartmann

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

~ Milan Kundera

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author’s back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

~ Elizabeth George

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

~ A.r. Voss

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

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

~ Lara Biyuts

Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.

~ Andy Paula

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.

~ Linda F. Radke

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.

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

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

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...

~ Deyth Banger

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

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

You are the only author of your book that matters.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit.

~ Paul Travis

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

~ Paul Travis

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.

~ Ryan Lilly

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

~ Chris Prentiss

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

~ Lucian Bane

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