Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.” — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
“If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun… — L.A. Jones Copy Share Image
“Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.” — Doug Pedersen Copy Share Image
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both.… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.” — Wendy Swore Copy Share Image
“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I'd never done anything that took my breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.” — Ben Midland 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
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi 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
'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
“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins” — Christina Collins 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
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. — Mickey Spillane 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
“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 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
“A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.” — Sandra Chami Kassis 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
“"You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.” — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. — Italo Calvino 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
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