Author Quotes

Keep Reading.Keep Writing.Keep Pushing yourself!And never stop learning!We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're weird.

~ Darynda Jones

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

~ C.s. Woolley

And I write novels! chimed in the other cop. Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!

~ Douglas Adams

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

~ Edward Gorey

Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would go every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life is that the days aren't long enough to write all the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts I'm thinking. I've finished the second draft of my book and am going to begin the third tomorrow morning at half-past seven. It's the sweetest book you ever saw— it is, truly. I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in the morning to dress and eat before beginning; then I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so tired that I'm limp all over.

~ Jean Webster

Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets.

~ Lara Biyuts

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

~ E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

~ Jean Webster

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

~ David Foster Wallace

Did you know that many people can not see the Man in the Moon? Their eyes and brains cannot put together the face: the two eyes, the nose, and the mouth. It's not mentioned to belittle anyone. It is mentioned for awareness, and for scientific knowledge of the human brain. For in fact, the Man in the Moon most certainly sees us.

~ Margaret Aranda

A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think.

~ Margaret Aranda

Don’t ever yell at me. I don’t yell, so talk to me in a regular voice.

~ Margaret Aranda

Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

~ Douglas Adams

*Persistence is more important than perfection. If at first you don’t succeed, it doesn’t matter as long as you always try, try again; *Small improvements, made consistently, add up; *You cannot fail unless you quit. What most people call failures are merely unsuccessful experiments. Failures are bumps on the road as long as your story remains a work in progress; *You can always do better with what you already have - and often, it’s much smarter to find ways to do so than to invest time and money trying something entirely new as your next one sure thing; *And most importantly, being good doesn’t matter nearly as much as being slightly better than yesterday.

~ Johnny B. Truant

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

~ Samuel Johnson

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

~ Britt Holewinski

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs – the word is not too extreme – to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us.

~ Victor Hugo

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.

~ Daniel Marques

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

~ Kate Atkinson

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!

~ Stuart J. Scesney

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!

~ Stuart J. Scesney

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

~ Alisha Priti Kirpalani

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!

~ Stuart J. Scesney

Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.

~ Stuart J. Scesney

This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn’t look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression

~ Stephen Richards

Beside every great writer is a great listener.

~ Nanette L. Avery

Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn’t hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.

~ Kathy Parks

The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.

~ Stuart J. Scesney

There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less comfortable.

~ Stuart J. Scesney

Live the dream awake.

~ Tia Walker

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

~ Will Advise

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

~ Erica Jong

Every programmer is an author.

~ Sercan Leylek

Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.

~ Martha Hamlett

The Raven's author_ _ _Walked down the road, abbreviated so we're told. _ _ The bus came by and one departed,That is to say, he got this. _ _ _Come on now, it's time to play. When water's cold it is that way. _ _ _Put the pieces together, then roll you die. Natural 20! Flying higt!Find the boxes, nearly there:Level up to 7, here is there.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. Her scribbling suit consisted of a black woollen pinafore on which she could wipe her pen at will, and a cap of the same material, adorned with a cheerful red bow, into which she bundled her hair when the decks were cleared for action. This cap was a beacon to the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept their distance, merely popping in their heads semi-occasionally, to ask, with interest, Does genius burn, Jo? They did not always venture even to ask this question, but took an observation of the cap, and judged accordingly. If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on; in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew; and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor. At such times the intruder silently withdrew; and not until the red bow was seen gayly erect upon the gifted brow, did any one dare address Jo.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

~ Adam Steven Page

Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness.

~ Chris Salamone