Authors Quotes - Page 2

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

I write to believe in goodness.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.

For your writing to come alive-to be multi-dimensional-you must barter away some control.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments - moments of sustained creation - when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.

Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.