Author Quotes
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.
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.
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.
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.
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
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.
Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...
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.
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.
I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.
I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.
The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.
When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.
Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.
