Authors Quotes - Page 4

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

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

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

I'm going to be a person who writes stories.

I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.

I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

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.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.

Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.