Author S Words Quotes

#1. Reading is not passive. It is only when the reader brings his/her own experiences to the work and breathes life into the author's words that they consummate the relationship and together bring the story to life.

Chuck Miceli

#2. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Paul Auster

#3. I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

James Thayer

#4. Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Stephen King

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

Lillian R. Melendez

#6. There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.

Alex De Campi

#7. Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart

Munia Khan

#8. Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

Ben Abix

#9. Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".

Kyle Idleman

#11. Keep Reading.
Keep Writing.
Keep Pushing yourself!
And never stop learning!
We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".

Darynda Jones

#12. Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

Nikki Rowe

#13. Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.

V.M. Sawh

#14. Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

Ben Midland

#15. The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Jodi Picoult

#16. An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.

Steve K. Smy

#17. She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.

Eveli Acosta

#18. Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.

Anurag Anand

#19. The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

Alisha "Priti" Kirpalani

#20. A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Leslie Austin

#21. The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#22. An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord

#24. A novel is designed to stimulate our minds and imagination without any visuals, other than the constructed text."

"An author's job is to breath life into words for the reader. That is the core essence of what we do.

Efthalia

#25. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.

Alfred Nestor

#26. If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

Terry Pratchett

#27. There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Michael Haneke

#29. A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

Ryan Lilly

#30. When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

Martin Amis

#31. An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

Carl Henegan

#32. We create our lives with words.

Harriet Showman

#33. Not Speaking has no reflection on what is being thought on the inside, being a non-verbal person with Autism in my early years I've come to value words, they shouldn't be wasted nor abused they should be cherished used positively and productively.

Paul Isaacs

#34. The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

Angela Lansbury

#35. The great words never die ...
and so does the soul of its author.

Toba Beta

#36. Books contain a special magic. Letters and words - side by side - able to speak and sing to us.
This allows the reader to enter the story.

Jason Ellis

#37. If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Jamie L. Harding

#38. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

Nikki Rowe

#39. 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

#40. Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it

Franz Wright

#41. If you can't win with words then show them a good example!

Stephen Richards

#42. What is Religion according to you?

"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.

Vishwas Mudagal

#43. Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

Alice Meynell

#44. The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

Katja Michael

#45. The words I speak to these chairs
must be silencing.
It has stunned them
into a profound emptiness.
No creaking from the gallery
no James Joyce here, nor Malory
An unknown author
in a very large chain
can't you hear me rattling?

B.J. Ward

#46. Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#47. Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including 'assassination' and 'bump'?

Lenore Look

#48. Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.

Mary M. Forbes

#49. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.

Wesley D. Gray

#50. Words both written and read are my passion.

Leslie Austin

#51. Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Fennel Hudson

#52. The energy of subatomic particles transmits photons which interconnect in a wave like motion to similar particles. In other words, the immortal soul conveys energy which links in a wave like motion to related souls; thus Soul Mates.

Serena Jade

#53. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.

Adriana Locke

#54. I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.

Ann Voskamp

#55. The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#57. I
started
creating;
Myself
From
The
Inside
Out
&
My
God
I
Wish
I
Had
Done
It
Sooner.

Nikki Rowe

#58. When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you.

Stephen Richards

#59. The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Donna Lynn Hope

#60. Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

L.L. Caulton

#61. A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#62. An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#63. Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!

Leslie Austin

#64. I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.

Kathe Koja

#65. I am an architect of words; there is no limit to the number of 'stories' I can create!

Traci M. Sanders

#66. Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not force yourself to write in the book, or it will reflect in your writing and it will be terribly obvious.

Wayne Hoss

#67. The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

Paul Fleischman

#68. An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Lion Feuchtwanger

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

Kirk Gollwitzer

#70. The only thing more powerful than words
- is the Author who chooses them.

K.A. Gunn