Authors Quotes

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Love and respect are above any law

I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

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

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.

Crazy people love their Kindles.

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.

And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his" -Tara Reese

In order to be heard, an author must have readers...

These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

This is the best time to be an author.

Be the CEO of your own career.

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

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

I read your diary. I KNOW

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

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

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not, then you miss the point of writing.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly.