Author Quotes - Page 3

Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.

There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.

Surviving a stupor of madness,
drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

I must kill some memories,
the heavy ones first and after
make righteous of my un-even soul.

To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the temporal with an intellectual engagement of body, soul, spirit, and mind. To write, therefore is to entangle the mysteries of the universe in a collection of words, a web of ideas, a single drop of ink on a page.

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

It's more important to be read than paid.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack