A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten
~ Cynthia Batten
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
~ Sara Sheridan
I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness…you wish they were there to enjoy it. I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is I’m here smiling & I know how much she’d like to see that.
~ Brandon Villasenor
Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop
~ Vanessa Vanney Thompson
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Money doesn't make the things you need. People do.
~ Raven Moore
Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.
Being positive at the worst time is the best time.
Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization—of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny.
~ Carew Papritz
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.
~ Laini Taylor
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
~ Michael J. Kannengieser
If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!
~ K. Hari Kumar
If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!
~ Leslie Austin
Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a moronic drinking game that later evolved into the imperial measurement system.
~ Sorin Suciu
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes
My favorite thing is when people underestimate me.
~ Cat Spydell
You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you.
~ Katrina Rose
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
~ T.s. Eliot
But as an escort it’s our duty to hold their attention and play with their heads. The one between their ears and the one in their pants.
~ S.k. Logsdon
It's more important to be read than paid.
~ S.l. Walker
The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.
~ Michael Houbrick
Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.
Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.
~ Doug Pedersen
The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?
Chances multiply when you take them.
Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.
When your defenses are down, it's alarming and beautiful - all that strength contained in a glass jar of innocence. He swallowed. I've loved you since the moment you realized the astronomical odds of us meeting like that, because in that brief second, I watched you suddenly open your heart to the possibility of something magical happening - something unexpected.
~ Lynda Meyers
Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur...In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it.
Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.
~ C.toni Graham
Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!
~ Jamie Mccall
The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.
~ Ian Mcewan
Finally... I'm here...
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
~ Thomas Harris
Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.
~ C.j. Roberts
We live in the information age and the sheer volume of it being available everywhere, creates a need for information that has value. Yes, we can look anything up on Google but who has the time? Can we trust that the information comes from a trustworthy source? Your experience has given you a deep knowing of your subject matter. You have insights and ideas that others may not figure out on their own. You are holding a roadmap that has great value to someone. What has been stopping you from sharing your knowledge? Perhaps you have been afraid to put yourself out there because of a fear of rejection? Let me get straight to the point. Get over it right now! Ponder the following quote for a moment and then move on with the decision to write rather than not to write, because not to write is not “to be”. You deny yourself and your audience. You have had an incredible journey to get to where you are and have amassed experience and knowledge. Now combine that with your unique voice and be heard. You are already an expert. Accept it.
~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting next to me. And, if it was in fact my actual guardian angel, then it probably would have been poor form not to offer a few chips to extend an olive branch.
~ Phil Wohl
I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you to spend the next couple of hours reading this book and then, in the next ten days implementing what you’ve learned here. When you realize the value of the impact your book will make, your decision to write will be a no-brainer! Using this very simple, powerful system you will soon be thinking about your second book, and third book. You will want to recruit your spouse, children and parents to write. You will understand that everyone has a unique voice whose legacy is to be forever captured in print. They key is to begin. Dreaming about getting started is not going to make it happen. Action is everything so make a promise to yourself to commit and take action.
Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.
~ Rayne Hall
All writing is rewriting.
~ John Green
