Author Platform Quotes

#1. I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

Milton Resnick

#2. I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.

Calvin W. Allison

#3. Bar a weekly wrestle with the "Pink 'Un" and an occasional dip into the form book I'm not much of a lad for reading, and my sufferings as I tackled The Woman (curse her!) Who Braved All were pretty fearful.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.

Molly Friedenfeld

#5. You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

Lucy Christopher

#6. I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Seann William Scott

#7. A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.

Larry Kirshbaum

#8. Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author positions you strongly upon your platform. It is the passport which will start you on your journey to becoming the recognized authority in the niche or space that you work in or aspire to work in.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#9. You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

Geraldine Solon

#10. don't you love him?" He found himself standing right behind her, so close he could smell the pine scent in her hair. He coughed self-consciously. "Is there . . .

Kara Jaynes

#11. My mind is reeling.

Michael D. O'Brien

#12. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.

C. Vann Woodward

#13. When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

Julianna Baggott

#14. Communists had it all wrong. It wasn't the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.

Jade Chang

#15. In the end of the day you make the rules. Base your Author Platform around the things you love to do, love to write about, and love to share.

Matthew Turner

#16. If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours.

Carole Jelen

#17. I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower.

Fernando Pessoa

#18. All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.

Malina Suliman

#19. I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

Jessica Valenti

#20. Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#21. I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

Charles M. Blow