“When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, 'Who do you want to be today?' ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are!” — Jan Porter Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.” — Michelle M. Pillow 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
“Mungu ni mwandishi wa hadithi ya maisha yangu na ndiye anayeandika ukurasa wa mwisho.” — Enock Maregesi 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
“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
“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Some people get offended by what I write, by what I do with my life and by what I say to those… — Daniel Marques Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“A writer’s silence is the loudest scream; it’s the unwritten chapters of their life that echo in the emptiness of their soul.” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
“In the end, we all yearn for those heart's which are deprived of sadness and are capable of love.” — Kamil Alvi Copy Share Image
“If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. — Eleanor Catton 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
“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
“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