Author Quotes

Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually. Think, Act Wise before it's Late.

~ Ilaxi Patel

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

I do not write poetry, I take words and dip them in feelings.

~ Arti Honrao

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

~ Criss Jami

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

~ Shannon Hale

There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.

~ Alex De Campi

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

~ Charles Dickens

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.

~ Richard P. Denney

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

~ Sarah Gilbert

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

~ Dana Stabenow

Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that flows from their pen.

~ C.k. Webb

Do not put statements in the negative form.And don't start sentences with a conjunction.If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that agreat deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.De-accession euphemisms.If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

~ William Safire

Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.

~ Shandy L. Kurth

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

~ Wendy Swore

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

~ Dani Harper

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

~ Richard P. Denney

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

~ Ren Garcia

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.

~ Kai Strand

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

~ Washington Irving

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

~ Lori R. Lopez

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

~ Henry Adams

I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.

~ Nadège Richards

Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author’s head that―in an excited explosion of words―suddenly become a captivating fairytale!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She was everything I wanted to be; strong, smart, witty, and above all else, she didn't care what other people thought about her. But after a while, she started to take on a personality of her own, and I was suddenly more interested in her story than I was in mine.

~ Caitlin Elyse

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say,His money is but lost, or thrown away.

~ John Bunyan

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.

~ Anasia Nicole Hixon

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.

~ Larry Brooks

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period.

~ Leon Uris

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big publish button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page, a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically emphatic sentence, falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance. The pages of a recently finished story seemed to vibrate in her hand with all the life they contained.

~ Ian Mcewan

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.

~ Shandy L. Kurth

I’m 100% certain of the quality of story I’m writing until I finish the outline and actually begin to write. At this point, I’m 100% certain the story sucks and I will never show it to another living soul. Until I type “THE END.” At this point, I’m 50% certain it sucks, 50% certain it’s brilliant, and 100% certain if I don’t show it to someone I will spontaneously combust.

~ Renee Miller