Author S Advice Quotes

#1. Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.

Michelle Franklin

#2. Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Lillian R. Melendez

#3. If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.

Terena Scott

#4. Those who can write, write.
Those who can't, criticize.

Max Hawthorne

#5. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Carla H. Krueger

#6. It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Alan Dapre

#7. I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself

Virginia Woolf

#8. Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.

#9. With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness
learn something new.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#10. Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

David John Griffin

#11. The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#12. One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.

Elizabeth Ann Patterson

#13. Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#14. I'm an author. We don't want to lead. We don't need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people's heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don't. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Neil Gaiman

#15. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing ...

Alan Dapre

#16. True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#17. Always walk as if you're running late, it's healthier.

Benny Bellamacina

#18. Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Douglas William Jerrold

#19. If you review on GoodReads - make sure you review on Amazon as well!! Help out an author and leave an Amazon review!

Aimee Brown

#20. Happiness is a reflection of how you perceive the moment

Jane Emery

#21. One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

Alessandra Torre

#22. You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Annie Dillard

#23. Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

R.K. King

#24. HARRY DRESDEN - WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

Jim Butcher

#25. When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Don Roff

#26. 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

#27. Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.
Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually.
Think, Act Wise before it's Late.

Ilaxi Patel

#28. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#29. To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

David Maxwell

#30. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.

Max Hawthorne

#31. Every author loves to read his own words.

Kirk Gollwitzer

#32. Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

Woody Allen

#33. Make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on!

Oladosu Feyikogbon

#34. Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.

Karen A. Chase

#35. You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

Courage Knight

#36. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Mylo Carbia

#37. It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.

David Chiles

#38. Being a writer, I think, is much like being a parent or a pet parent in my case. I love all of my characters equally, even if I want you to hate them, I love them. If you don't love all your characters you're not doing it right.

Ellie Elisabeth

#39. I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

Jonathan Maberry

#40. When you love someone's everything with your everything then you truly are in love.

Stephen Richards

#41. Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. Don't write like your mentors

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#43. The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure.

Judith Lewis Herman

#44. Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it.

Michelle M. Pillow

#45. You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

Niall Williams

#46. There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

Anne Lamott

#47. An author who rewrites his own work must essentially be two people. One is the free flowing uncritical writer who creates the bulk of the material - the other is the extremely critical editor whose aim it is to make the book as good as it can become.

Gudjon Bergmann