“No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the… — Kirsten Prout Copy Share Image
“Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head.” — Judah Lee Davis Copy Share Image
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silver, and… — Jacqueline E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins” — Christina Collins Copy Share Image
“The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. They all hear The speaking of the Tree. They hear… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I hope you don't get stuck in the atrocities of your past. For others, it may just be a story but for… — Kamil Alvi Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to… — Del Quentin Wilber Copy Share Image
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST… DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY! SPEAK UP!” — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.” — Jenny Trout Copy Share Image
“I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck” — Greig Beck Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“"You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.” — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.” — Chris Everheart Copy Share Image
“A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.” — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.” — Deborah Brooks Copy Share Image
“The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule… — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Copy Share Image
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Book publishing is a passion that one hopes eventually becomes a good paying job.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream” — LaQuita Cameron Copy Share Image
“Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.” — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
“Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE YOU LEARN HOW TO FIGHT FAIR BECAUSE SOME HITS YOU CAN'T RECOVER FROM -HOPENATION” — Qwana Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
“Mungu ni mwandishi wa hadithi ya maisha yangu na ndiye anayeandika ukurasa wa mwisho.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.” — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image