Aspiring Authors Quotes

#1. The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

Andrew Pettegree

#2. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters

#3. She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.

Terri St. Cloud

#4. When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

#5. It's harder to laugh than to cry.

Henry Thomas

#6. If I were a Jedi, I had definitely turned to the dark side of the Force.

Colleen Houck

#7. I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Tom Conrad

#8. No ... if the world demanded their deaths in return for safety, she would have watched it burn.

Michelle Sagara West

#9. Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

Will Rogers

#10. The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Anton Corbijn

#11. It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

Gudjon Bergmann

#12. Sometimes people help each other, and get messed up in each other's business; sometimes we stay out of it and let people find the way themselves. It's always right to offer help, but not all help is right.

Louise Rozett

#13. I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.

Steve C. Roberts

#14. The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields.

Ji-li Jiang

#15. My ultimate crush may be Judith McNaught - I met her once more than 20 years ago, and she was incredibly kind and encouraging to me. I adore that woman. But I also fangirl over aspiring or beginning authors, because every time I talk with them, I'm so energized and inspired.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Gale Sayers

#17. When trying to be a famous anything behave as if you already are
Liam Leddy 22/08/13

Liam Leddy

#18. What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.

Samuel R. Delany

#20. I was not alone in the human condition.

Lisa Wingate

#21. We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

Benny Anderson

#22. As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

V.E Schwab

#23. It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

John Boyne