Author Quotes
Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.
Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.
Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.
If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.
Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.
Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.
It ain't just about writing on some documents, author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.
Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237
Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.
My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.
...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....
New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.
No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.
To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.
Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.
A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.
I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.
Your imagination is a very important thing because nobody can take that away from you. No one can look in your head and read your thoughts.
Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.
Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!
Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.
Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle!
Do you know what the best thing about a conscience is? You can never mute it. It's an unlimited stream of ideas flowing into your mind.
I love every single character in my books. Killing a character of causes me physical pain... It's like ripping a band-aid off too fast.
An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.
Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.
Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!
Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.
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.
He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards
Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.
One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ...... and drinking coffee.
Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author
A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.
Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.
I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.