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The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.
— Maggie Young
If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
all my life
i have looked for poems
to elope with. — Sanober Khan
i have looked for poems
to elope with. — Sanober Khan
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
— Dave Morris
One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.
— Gail Godwin
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.
(on Tom Wolfe) — Norman Mailer
(on Tom Wolfe) — Norman Mailer
There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
— Ruskin Bond
It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.
— Tamara L. Chilver
you are
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
— John Dryden
After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.
— Ronald Fisher
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
Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.
— Uma Nnenna
Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes good people do bad things.
— Andrew Gilmore
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
— Julien Green
Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up.
— Stephanie Davies
Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.
— Ben Oliveira
love can
embellish its beginning
sing its blossoming
and engrave its eternities
but can never
explain its loss. — Sanober Khan
embellish its beginning
sing its blossoming
and engrave its eternities
but can never
explain its loss. — Sanober Khan
The results you deserve depend on your will to make your success happen."
-Steven Cuoco — Steven Cuoco
-Steven Cuoco — Steven Cuoco
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
— Darynda Jones
Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What
— Alan Bradley
Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.
— Jessica Hagedorn The Gangster Of Love
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
— Victor LaValle
I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read.
— Tom Angleberger
Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
— Mark Twain
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
— Carmen DeSousa
The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!
— Latif Mercado
The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.
— Susan Cain
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
A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..
— Himmilicious
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
— Robert M. Pirsig
All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf
The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
— Henry David Thoreau
Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
— Tamara L. Chilver
I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!
— Gayathri Jayakumar
If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away.
— Andrea L'Artiste
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
— Alison Tyler
I don't strive on being the most beautiful woman in the room! I strive to be the most unique! The one who stands out, the one you will never forget.
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.
— Richard K. Morgan
We authors, who trade in fictions for a living, are a continuum of all that we have seen and heard, and most importantly, all that we have read.
— Neil Gaiman
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
Reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are like crack for authors. Feed your favorite writer's habit today!
— Sabine Priestley
Did I never tell you Sassicaia makes me horny?
— Steve Emmett
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman
Our very existence refuses your laws and
your science, your religions and your
philosophies. — B.E. Scully
your science, your religions and your
philosophies. — B.E. Scully
Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
— Thomas Jefferson
Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
— Justin Alcala
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).
— Guy Kawasaki
We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.
— Howard Schultz
PEOPLE DIE
THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Sometimes its the crazy side that accomplishes things!
— Christopher J. Fennell
My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
— Dermot Davis
Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.
— Tim Heaton
Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
— Maggie Young
The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne
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
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
— Christopher Hitchens
If I began to draw
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors
— Robert Asprin
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
— Robert Black
Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other's hands.
-Amaderan Poetry, various authors — Marie Lu
-Amaderan Poetry, various authors — Marie Lu
People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it.
— Andrea L'Artiste
A study in the Washington Post says that women have
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh. — Conan O'Brien
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh. — Conan O'Brien
Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
— John Turturro
The authors of all our misfortune.
— Jefferson Davis
Lucas, I never wanted children. I just want to be CEO. I want money, power, and on occasion, sex
— Norian F. Love
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
— E. Nesbit
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
— Horace Walpole
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas