Author Quotes

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.

~ Kevin James Breaux

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation

~ Angela Y. Davis

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

~ Idries Shah

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

~ Tara Bray Smith

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It ain't just about writing on some documents,author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

~ Toba Beta

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

~ Albert Sánchez Piñol

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

~ A.m. Sawyer

Be good, or good at it.

~ Belo Miguel Cipriani

My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.

~ Christy Leigh Stewart

To be or not to be wasn't the question meant, it was the secret answer hidden in riddled defense.

~ Michael Anthony Gill-Branion

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

~ Mark Twain

When I die cremate me so I can finally fit into something small.

~ Xondra Day

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.

~ Kurt Wenzel

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

~ Aaron A.a. Smith

He has tongue of a writer.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Kevin Ansbro

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

~ Colum Mccann

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

~ Jean Webster

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.

~ Sonia Rumzi

But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of putting footnotes in chapter 5, the autobiographical chapter, started out simply as a joke. Who but a biblical scholar would think of footnoting an autobiography? But the joke quickly got out of hand and become a significant part of that chapter. I plan someday to write a scholarly article consisting of a single sentence and a twenty-page footnote.

~ Jeffrey L. Staley

Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.

~ Earl Prevette

One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ...... and drinking coffee.

~ Linda Ghaderi

In the stories Joan wrote when she was Daniel’s age, she had murdered her characters, while Daniel had his one character facing down dangers and searching for answers. The genesis of the stories was clear to her: because Daniel felt loved and safe within his family, he could imagine himself taking risks, venturing out onto figurative limbs. He was lucky, Joan thought. She had only felt loved and safe within the worlds she created.

~ Cherise Wolas

By connecting your inner child to your internal being, you bring out the hero in you that is inside all of us.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the intrepid spirits whom share the present as well as with those souls whom are not yet born.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.

~ Nidhie Sharma

He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.

~ Kelly Moran

A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

~ Aleks Canard

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

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

~ A.a. Milne

Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.

~ Malebo Sephodi

My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.

~ Washington Irving

The biggest thing for aspiring writers I would say is that writing is hard work. You can’t sustain the fantasy that it should somehow be otherwise for you because you are more special or more committed than other aspiring writers. You aren’t sitting down to be entertained by the gods or to entertain yourself. At times it can be a thrill and it feels more like play, but we are easily deceived by whatever pleasures or rewards writing can offer. Exhilarating work is still work. Is it work, or is it play? And the answer is “yes.” Does it sometimes feel like it comes easily or naturally? Yes. But did it really come easily? No. Writing doesn’t offer the rhythmic endorphin hit you get scrolling down the screen clicking on memes. Are you up for the work it is going to take to become successful as a writer? It is going to be harder than you think. You are submitting to forces and to a process that you can’t fully control. There is maybe a tiny bit more control if you self-publish, and there is no shame in doing that, but even that is going to introduce hard work. Probably harder than you think. If my next novel can’t find a home, I’m not above self-publishing it in some capacity and then moving on to the next project.

~ Brian K. Friesen

the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body

~ Medicine Turtle

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

~ Anurag Shourie

I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.

~ Jenny Trout

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

~ Caroline George