Author Heroine Quotes

#1. Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wallace Stegner

#2. When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#3. Dixie Flynn may be the most kick-ass heroine ever created. Kudos to M.C. Grant for giving us the ultimate 'girl power' thriller."
- TESS GERRITSEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILENT GIRL

M.C. Grant

#4. The Palestinian mother is the author of the survival story of the Palestinian people. She is the heroine, the one behind the success.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#5. The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential.

Mensah Oteh

#8. He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Gautama Buddha

#9. Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

Ruth Gordon

#10. If you ask yourself 'What's the best thing that happened today?' It actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn't otherwise think about.

Austin Kleon

#11. The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

Paul Park

#12. And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.

Samuel Beckett