Mn Authors Quotes
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling
This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.
How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.
Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.
Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
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.
Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.
I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?
The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.
Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.
Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.
To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins
If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.
By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!
When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!
We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!
It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!
There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.