Authors Quotes

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

~ Paula V. Hardin

I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.

~ Justin Alcala

An author's job is to make you aware of your feelings while you continue to feel them.

~ Vanshicca Dhyani

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.(on Lillian Hellman)

~ Mary Mccarthy

Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.

~ Bryce Courtenay

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

~ Carmela Dutra

DRAMA: Be careful about being baited into the personal battles and confusion of others. If you want to help someone out emotionally, be certain he or she has made a commitment to the sacrifice before you intervene for his or her success. If you don’t, you’re likely to be drained of all your healthy energy with his or her selfish petty, pitiful pretending and negotiating. Be encouraged but more importantly if you can’t make it better, whatever you do don’t make it worse, for them and especially yourself

~ Kerry E. Wagner

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

~ Kerry E. Wagner

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

~ Kerry E. Wagner

If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they’re fortunate and lucky beyond anyone’s imagination. It remains a shock to me that I’ve had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I’d written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I’ve managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder.

~ Pat Conroy

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

~ Nidhie Sharma

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-necked old professor became a convert to Spiritualistm; it was not that Richard had any problems believing in ghosts - Richard believed, with no problems or contradictions, in everything - but Conan Doyle was preaching, and it showed through the words. Richard was young, and innoncent in his fashion, and believed that authors should be trusted, and that there should be nothing hidden beneath the surface of a story.

~ Neil Gaiman

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

~ Mary Papas

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

~ Mary Papas

I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique—nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts.  It's a difficult notion to wrap your brain around, and yet it reminds me that amidst the innumerable stories told throughout the ages, a distinctly new one rests on the tip of an author's pen.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

~ Carlos Salinas

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

~ Elizabeth George

Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.

~ Unknown

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.

~ Elinor Florence

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, “Edgar Allen Poe” I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

~ Chris Mentillo

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

~ Tom Conrad

I thought it was a novel.”“It is.”“What’s it about??”“You’ll have to buy it to find out, but it’s got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.”“This one’s got a recipe for apple crumble,” I said.“Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

~ Marcel Theroux

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

~ Josh Alan Friedman

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

~ Kevin Ansbro

I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

~ Anurag Shourie

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

~ Tracy Millosovich

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

~ Graham Moore

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

~ Ryan Lilly

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.”~ Christa Desir

~ Christa Desir

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

~ Ashly Lorenzana