Author Quotes - Page 12

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man’s bucket.

Books are an extension of our imagination

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.

My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

(Marti Melville)

Passion + Purpose = Prosperity.

To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and lead
your life.

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

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.

How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from his
creation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go.

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'.

When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, 'Who do you want to be today?'