Author Quotes

If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.-Suzanne Steele

~ Suzanne Steele

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn)

~ Vikrmn

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.

~ Deborah L. Parker

To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the temporal with an intellectual engagement of body, soul, spirit, and mind. To write, therefore is to entangle the mysteries of the universe in a collection of words, a web of ideas, a single drop of ink on a page.

~ Charles M. Heyworth

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

~ Paul Collins

A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North.

~ Jason W. Blair

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

~ Shandy L. Kurth

You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.

~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

I am deliriously in love with GIF reviews. That is all.

~ Lisa Marie Perry

Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Love yourself unconditionally.Do what you love to do.Be grateful for what you do have.Happiness is an attitude of gratitude.Love all of life.

~ Jan Porter

If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are!

~ Jan Porter

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.

~ Elizabeth George

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

~ Slicktor Victor Robinson

pssst . . .your soul is calling you to freedom love and play!

~ Jan Porter

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

~ Elizabeth George

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

~ Kerouac

The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.

~ Ben Midland

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.

~ Milan Kundera

Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki

~ Julia Suzuki

Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it.

~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him.

~ Ben Midland

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

~ Geraldine Solon

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

~ Ben Midland

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

~ Ben Midland

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

~ Ben Midland

The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.

~ Ben Midland

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

~ Ben Midland

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

~ Carew Papritz

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

~ Geraldine Solon

In real life, Snow White stays dead and Rapunzel grows old, alone in her tower. In real life, you gotta have enough sense to stay away from ugly bitches offering you shiny apples and have enough balls to cut off your own hair and use it as a ladder if needs be. In real life, you gotta save yourself and the only happy endings are the ones paid for in massage parlors.

~ Amy Sumida

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

~ Kia Carrington-Russell

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

~ Violette Leduc

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

~ Carew Papritz

A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

~ Cynthia Batten