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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time. — Roger Angell

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry

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

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other. — Teresa Mummert

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

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?! — Martha Sweeney

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work. — Geraldine Solon

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

Success and talent aren't even in the same neighborhood. — Jenny Trout

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book. — Daniel Ionson

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. — Josh Malerman

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job. — Sara Sheridan

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

An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it. — Sterling Lord

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — G.K. Chesterton

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter

All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing — Carl Henegan

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored. — Paul Di Filippo

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — Samuel Johnson

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer. — Tom Conrad

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

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

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

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

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

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out! — Carmen DeSousa

how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. — Sanober Khan

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes. — Cole Porter

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. — Ryan Lilly

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

All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones

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

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

Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts. — Rayne Hall

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers. — M.F. Moonzajer

When authors write a predominantly white cast, it reflects who they're paying attention to in life. — Kira Hawke

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type. — Mary Papas