Author Quotes

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse. An inner compass is evident in her work. Pieces reflect both past and present dilemmas; while showcasing her victories in overcoming these obstacles ~ all from her faith based perspective. Light touches of modernism play hand in hand with old world strokes, offering highly visceral readings.

~ Earl M. Coleman

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

~ Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

~ Darrell Case

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a book worth reading. Not willing to go there? Do yourself and the world a favor: Don't write it until you're ready to do so. Only then is it your truest artist being heard. And only then will the world want to hear what you have to say.-Wendy K. Williamson 9/25/14

~ Wendy K. Williamson

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride!

~ Marilyn Fowler

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

~ C.f. Heller

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

~ Alamvusha

Let you light shine from the inside out.

~ Juliet M. Sampson

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

~ Lisa Marie Perry

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

~ Kevin James Breaux

With our writings, we can right the world.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it. PSALM 37:29. ~Stop being envious no one can make it without the true help of a honest individual or someone who believes in your future. Stop hating people for success this will make your bones rotten. DONT burn the only bride you left standing. Your image doe's not pay bills stop being concerned about how your social media page looks. & build a foundation on the heels of your strength. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves the world is to cold for anyone to be in weakness. #God1st #FAMILYCLOSE #Author #Writer #MusicArtist

~ Ray Rage Patino

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

~ Susan Lendroth

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

~ Clarence Darrow

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

~ Sara Sheridan

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

~ Sara Sheridan

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

~ Sara Sheridan

The first task of every author is to evoke emotion in their reader. You may laugh or you may cry; you may love me or you may hate me. So long as you feel something, I know that I'm doing my job.

~ V.l. Dreyer

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write. 

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

~ Julia Child

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and paper.

~ Logan Kain

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL

~ Michelle M. Pillow

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?

~ D.a. Botta

Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says i remember you. I am glad you are here again.

~ D.a. Botta

Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.

~ T.f. Hodge

I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever pen it in this lifetime, for then the seeking ends; miserable is the day the adventure ends.

~ D.a. Botta

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

~ L.l. Caulton

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

~ Saru Singhal

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...

~ James Minter

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.

~ Joe Ducie

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

~ David John Griffin

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.Page 68

~ Steven Pressfield

If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.

~ Asa Don Brown

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

~ Haruki Murakami

Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.

~ Jane Bled