Top 100 Authors Life Quotes
#1. Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.
Janae Mitchell
#2. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#4. May the words come easy, the doubt be weak, and the coffee strong enough to eat through steel. (I don't drink coffee...but I understand most authors do, and they like it with a bit of fight in it.) Now, let us boot up, sit down, and accrue those daily page counts!
G. Allen Cook
#5. I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes.
I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind of gal. But there will be other days when I'll have a comback that'll knock ya flat and you knows it brov! ha-ha!
Ellie Williams
#6. A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.
Latif Mercado
#8. I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
Paul Fleischman
#9. We need to be the authors of our own life.
Peter Senge
#10. When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
Tushar Upreti
#11. Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.
Ben Abix
#12. Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."
Neil Gaiman
#14. Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.
Raynetta Manees
#15. The results you deserve depend on your will to make your success happen."
-Steven Cuoco
Steven Cuoco
#16. If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.
Sheeja Jose
#18. Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#19. Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not writing at all, feels far worse.
Carl Henegan
#20. When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!
Ace Antonio Hall
#21. Peace is when we look upon the world together.
A.D. Posey
#22. Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize
to learn
that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.
Margaret Visser
#23. A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.
Stephanie Lahart
#24. Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.
Ralph Keyes
#25. 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
#26. Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.
Ayn Rand
#27. It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life
and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.
Stefanos Livos
#30. Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
Angie-Marie Delsante
#31. My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
Eleanor Catton
#32. People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.
Azar Nafisi
#33. What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.
Julie Wright
#34. Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
Florence King
#35. The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.
Maggie Young
#36. The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.
Roman Payne
#38. Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Agatha Christie
#39. To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
David Gerrold
#41. The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
Kellie Elmore
#42. There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it ... others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.
Carl Henegan
#43. all my life
i have looked for poems
to elope with.
Sanober Khan
#44. You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.
Robin Sacredfire
#45. Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
Flannery O'Connor
#46. Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
Eveli Acosta
#47. I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
Crystal Woods
#48. The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. It doesn't do to read too much,' Widmerpool said. 'You get to look at life with a false perspective. By all means have some familiarity with the standard authors. I should never raise any objection to that. But it is no good clogging your mind with a lot of trash from modern novels.
Anthony Powell
#50. "It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
Mariam Kobras
#51. Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
Mary O'Hara
#52. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.
Skye High
#53. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.
A.D. Posey
#54. When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.
Ellen Douglas
#55. I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
#56. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture.
Andrea L'Artiste
#57. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Joseph Addison
#58. The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is TRUE TO LIFE unless it is true to the WORST IN LIFE, that the idea has infected even the women.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#60. Everyone's life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages of their life. New triumphs of the soul have yet to be written!
Shannon L. Alder
#61. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Aberjhani
#63. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.
Sanober Khan
#64. My life had indeed become meaningless to me. Even lack of sleep was not a concern for me; only hunger remained a sensation worthy of articulation. Once that hunger was assuaged, I would return to my inert state.
Ashokamitran
#65. All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
Larry Brown
#66. Everyone's life matters and everyone deserves to be happy but not everyone is in a place where they think, or even believe, happiness is possible.
Cheryl B. Evans
#67. It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#69. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
Siri Hustvedt
#70. Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.
R.P. Falconer
#72. Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.
Jason Ellis
#73. Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.
Ian Lamont
#75. And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
Vincent Van Gogh
#76. you were
and always will be
that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees
that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories.
Sanober Khan
#77. There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.
Josephine Tey
#79. Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.
Robin Sloan
#80. I think I'm probably going to be one of those unnoticed Authors that get discovered well after I have passed on. I better drill into my daughter now on how I want my books to be abstracted into Television or Film before it's too late lol
Ellie Williams
#81. The Loon Charm
To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home
Viola Shipman
#82. Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
Sahara Sanders
#83. The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#84. Value yourself and those who are in your company will reflect the same image.
Steven Cuoco
#85. The homeless embodied the final stage in a decline your life could have tended toward. You did not take them for victims, but for authors of their own lives.
Edouard Leve
#86. My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#87. You deserve more in your life. Think big. Love more and share beyond your limits. You will then become limitless.
Steven Cuoco
#88. 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
#89. We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
Giacomo Casanova
#90. Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.
Sanober Khan
#91. A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish ... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick DeWitt
#92. As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
Calvin Trillin
#93. If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!
K. Hari Kumar
#94. Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
Stephen Fry
#95. Some people get offended by what I write, by what I do with my life and by what I say to those they never saw. And they also get offended when told they are too stupid to have the right to judge anyone. These poor souls don't know that respect and intelligence are correlated.
Daniel Marques
#96. I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.
Andy Andrews
#97. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.
Ashly Lorenzana
#98. Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
Sanober Khan
#100. They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke
Jen Campbell
