Authors Quotes - Page 5

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire to
Rousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to be
irresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.

We read them for their Words, not for their deeds.

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something-a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question - -ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored.  Writing is a jealous and needy lover.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.