519 quotes found
“These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.”
“What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?”
“An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...”
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.”
“If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place... Most, p...”
“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.”
“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”
“Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:”
“This is the best time to be an author.”
“Be the CEO of your own career.”
“Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.”
“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.”
“Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.”
“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve ti...”
“Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.”
“Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.”
“Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”
“I read your diary. I KNOW”
“You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.”
