Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
~ Judith Briles
There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact writing something quite different.
~ Russell M. Goldfarb
You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.
~ Marissa Meyer
Crazy people love their Kindles.
~ Dermot Davis
The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.
And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his -Tara Reese
~ Lucian Bane
In order to be heard, an author must have readers...
~ Rachel Heffington
I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.
~ Elmore Leonard
These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.
~ Kristen Lamb
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn, it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
~ Charles Brower
What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?
~ Lori Lesko
An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New...
~ Catherine Townsend-Lyon
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.
~ Roman Payne
I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
~ Jen Selinsky
An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.
~ Carl Henegan
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
~ Geraldine Solon
This is the best time to be an author.
Be the CEO of your own career.
~ Julie Hedlund
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.
~ Janae Mitchell
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.
~ William Goldman
Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes.'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.
~ Spike Milligan
An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr
~ Elaine Orr
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
~ Don Roff
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
~ Stephen King
Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
~ Ace Antonio Hall
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
~ Aberjhani
I read your diary. I KNOW
~ Mary Papas
You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.
A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..
~ Himmilicious
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
~ John Green
Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.
~ Heather Hart
If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.
~ Heather Dowell
That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.
Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.
~ Joanne Kraft
Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.
~ Andrew Crofts
There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.
~ Jesse Abundis
