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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.
— Roger Angell
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
— John F. Kennedy
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
— Tushar Upreti
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
— Samuel Johnson
I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.
— Shannon A. Thompson
This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm. — Sanober Khan
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
— Teresa Mummert
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
— Mary Papas
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
— Seeley James
If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.
— Sahara Sanders
Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.
— Max Hawthorne
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is probably no hell for authors in the next worldthey suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
— Teresa Mummert
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
Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!
— David Batterson
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.
He calls me through that magic door-
Where galaxies of worlds await! — Belle Whittington
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
— Dani Shapiro
I write to believe in goodness.
— Red Haircrow
i writebecause
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This is the best time to be an author.
— Geraldine Solon
If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
i want to bleed ink and shit prose.
— Jonathan Culver
Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.
— Max Hawthorne
Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.
— Stefanos Livos
all the wordsall the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan
Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
— Sahara Sanders
I read your diary. I KNOW.
— Mary Papas
People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
— Dermot Davis
Authors are directors of the mind. Think about how you would compose a scene. Make it cinematic.
— Kira Hawke
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
— H.L. Mencken
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
For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.
— Michael A. Arnzen
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
— Michel De Montaigne
I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
— Alexei Maxim Russell
All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing
— Carl Henegan
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
— Carmen DeSousa
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
— Henry David Thoreau
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
— Daniel Ionson
Success and talent aren't even in the same neighborhood.
— Jenny Trout
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
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
— Geraldine Solon
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
When authors write a predominantly white cast, it reflects who they're paying attention to in life.
— Kira Hawke
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
— Julian Barnes
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
— Darynda Jones
Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
— Christopher Rice
The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf
I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.
— Jonathan Culver
Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
— Eveli Acosta
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
— Mary Papas
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
— Alain De Botton
Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.
— Shannon Winslow
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
— Marti Melville
Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
— Laurence J. Peter
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
— Louisa May Alcott
