Authors Quotes · Page 10

“Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.”

— Eveli Acosta

“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)”

— Alan Garner

“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“The ending to your book is different from the ending to your plot.”

— Jennifer Probst

“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman”

— Tracy Kauffman

“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I…

— A.K. Kuykendall

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and…

— Virginia Henley

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

“We should not stray from the darkness within us, that thing we call our Shadow. We should embrace it and learn from…

— Trevor Carter

“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated.…

— Neil Gaiman

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in…

— Eleanor Catton

Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily…

— Ben Shapiro

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference…

— Julie Kagawa

“Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for…

— Alok Mishra

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel…

— Paul Di Filippo

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create…

— Jon Favreau

“I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique—nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts.  It's a difficult notion to…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth”

— Michael Lieber

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.”

— Mary Papas

“Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.”

— Yuri Boganov

“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”

— Justin Alcala

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

— Robert Gottlieb

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

— Nigel Barker

“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

“God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

— John Updike

“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing”

— Carl Henegan

“all I want to do is get home and never see any of you authors ever again,”

— Michael Chabon

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

— Gaston Leroux

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie