Authors Quotes

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.

~ Robin Sacredfire

I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective.

~ Robin Sacredfire

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

~ Bryan Way

When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you.

~ Daisy Goodwin

I'm not a writer, I just express in words!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.

~ Deyth Banger

Even The Smallest Candle Burns Brighter In The Dark.

~ Chris Mentillo

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

~ Beem Weeks

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

~ Jaime Reed

Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads books and watch films, I read comics, watch films, read books listen to audiobooks...This are two different stories, you were challanged to open them, good job you open them now but can you try to start a new life??To start by opening a new book??Meeting with new characters??With new writers??With one new book which has a story which you haven't heard??Probably, you aren't still ready!

~ Deyth Banger

Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.

~ A.d. Posey

Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?

~ A.d. Posey

Writers don't have bad life days, they just have good research days.

~ Julie Wright

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

~ Chris Mentillo

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

~ Jayden Hunter

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

~ Chris Mentillo

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

~ Chris Mentillo

Writers live twice.

~ —Natalie Goldberg

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

~ Sanober Khan

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

~ Angelica Hopes

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

~ Uma Nnenna

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

~ Shannon L. Alder

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

~ Ryan Lilly

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

~ Anne Rice

How do I get inspired? Life.

~ Alex G. Zarate

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

~ Peter Watts

It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.

~ Jasper Fforde

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence of rage, or reading Naipaul might convince you to seize the ego that so wants to be loved, drag it outside, put it up against a wall, and shoot it.

~ Zia Haider Rahman