Author Quotes

Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

Without the author there is nothing.

If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!

It's raining, raining words!

Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.

Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.

We weave together the many skeins of our words, Into poems and stories and books, And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful, For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

I would not be myself without writing.

Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive.

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

If you want to be a writer, then write.

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

why do people pour water on concrete expecting something to grow from it" AP

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

With our writings, we can right the world.

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

Let you light shine from the inside out.

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.