Author Quotes

Life is totally unbelievable. Enjoy it at its fullest, with no regrets.

~ Gloria E. Gherardi

Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.

~ Alex Hirsch

Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

~ David Hume

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

I love every single character in my books. Killing a character of causes me physical pain... It's like ripping a band-aid off too fast.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Do you know what the best thing about a conscience is? You can never mute it. It's an unlimited stream of ideas flowing into your mind.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

A good way to never run out of ideas? Surround yourself with interesting people, then think about how you can make them into characters.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don't hold anything back.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

I like writing multiple stories at once. It's fun to change my mindset and get transformed into a different story when I feel like it.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

When you're sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you're passionate and sick, you'll find a way to write down something.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Don't wonder why your time hasn't come yet. When you plant a seed, it always takes a while to grow. Don't be hasty. Think, plan, hustle.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

If you have a surprise idea, don't let it go! No matter if it's 4 AM, 6 AM or 12 AM, don't let it go! It might have been a great one!

~ B.a. Gabrielle

Life is like a diamond. More you trim it, more it becomes beautiful...

~ Naeem Baig

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are never going to get the results and take empowered action when our mindsets are in opposition to our desires

~ Gina Carré

The true Entrepreneurship doesn't means to be your own boss, rather it is the thirst to follow your heart and work with the team of visionaries!

~ Ujjwal Chugh

Yes, yes, yes we say,without a thought for the day.Running and fretting to make ends meetrushing from Susie to Joe and to Pete.Our lives, in upheaval, have turned to a tizzy,never completing, because we're too busy.All we must do for a tranquil soulis employ a word, just one, called NO.

~ J. Grant Howard

...about a spiritual path, seeing the validity in all paths, and knowing that religion can help or hamper the path. The teachings in every religion are valuable. It is humanity that has bogged down in dogma and rules. Loving and practicing the teachings that ring true is the key.

~ Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet.

~ Cédric Klapisch

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

~ Tracy Millosovich

It’s like people immediately imagine me sitting in some gothic, sweeping castle in Edinburgh, a piece of fine bone china full of English tea next to my neat writing station. They think that my car, my purse, my everything was financed by my lucrative but somehow not too time consuming writing career. I’ve even had one guy ask me if my hand cramps at signings. While I wanted to give a snarky, “Yes, just like Tom Brady’s does,” I can’t pull off snarky. My sarcasm immediately goes into b**ch territory

~ Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

~ Dashiell Hammett

The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author does not precede the works, he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and recomposition of fiction. In fact, if we are accustomed to presenting the author as a genius, as a perpetual surging of invention, it is because, in reality, we make him function in exactly the opposite fashion. One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverse is, one has an ideological production). The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.In saying this, I seem to call for a form of culture in which fiction would not be limited by the figure of the author…

~ Michel Foucault

As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to saying that the author is the genial creator of a work in which he deposits, with infinite wealth and generosity, an inexhaustible world of significations. We are used to thinking that the author is so different from all other men, and so transcendent with regard to all languages that, as soon as he speaks, meaning begins to proliferate, to proliferate indefinitely.

~ Michel Foucault

Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, “sacralized” and “sacralizing” figures) to the extent that authors became subject to punishment, that is, to the extent that discourses could be transgressive. In our culture (and doubtless in many others), discourse was not originally a product, a thing, a kind of goods; it was essentially an act _ an act placed in the bipolar field of the sacred and the profane, the licit and the illicit, the religious and the blasphemous. Historically, it was a gesture fraught with risks before becoming goods caught up in a circuit of ownership.

~ Michel Foucault

It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the real and exterior individual who produced it; instead, the name seems always to be present, marking off the edges of the text, revealing, or at least characterizing, its mode of being. The author’s name manifests the appearance of a certain discursive set and indicates the status of this discourse within a society and a culture. It has no legal status, nor is it located in the fiction of the work; rather, it is located in the break that founds a certain discursive construct and its very particular mode of being. As a result, we could say that in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the “author-function”, while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer_ it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor_ it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer_ but not an author. The author-function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.

~ Michel Foucault