Top 100 Authors Love Quotes
#1. Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
Mal Peet
#2. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.
but i have hope
because i do not know everything.
AVA.
#3. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?
Larry Brown
#4. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
Sanober Khan
#5. 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
#7. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.
Elizabeth Spencer
#8. Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don't worry about it.
Neil Gaiman
#9. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.
Sanober Khan
#10. I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
Mallory Ortberg
#11. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.
Nicole Kidman
#14. Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
A.D. Posey
#15. If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.
Heather Dowell
#16. You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.
Sanober Khan
#18. Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.
A.D. Posey
#19. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#21. All books are hyggelig, but classics written by authors such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens have a special place on the bookshelf. At the right age, your kids may also love to cuddle up with you in the hyggekrog and have you read to them. Probably not Tolstoy.
Meik Wiking
#22. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.
Sanober Khan
#24. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.
A.D. Posey
#25. On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
Andrea Dworkin
#26. I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#27. Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
Sanober Khan
#28. What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
Louis Sachar
#30. Poetry keeps me
in a highly drunken state
of divinity.
Sanober Khan
#31. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.
you have the power to choose.
AVA.
#32. Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain.
Sanober Khan
#34. I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.
Joanna Penn
#35. I'm sorry that I hurt you."
"You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind of Indian you were. But what hurts me most is to know what kind of man.
Tony D'Souza
#36. what is
more beautiful
tears, in someone's eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them.
Sanober Khan
#37. 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
#38. People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.
Matthew Pearl
#39. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
Brandi L. Bates
#40. 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
#41. Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear
new lines, new countries
spring up in my palms
my rough hair
become swaying silk
and all the leaves
in my body
become lusher than fruits.
Sanober Khan
#42. I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
Richard Lewis
#43. You deserve more in your life. Think big. Love more and share beyond your limits. You will then become limitless.
Steven Cuoco
#44. Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
John Hodgman
#45. love can
embellish its beginning
sing its blossoming
and engrave its eternities
but can never
explain its loss.
Sanober Khan
#46. i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.
Sanober Khan
#47. The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.
Sahara Sanders
#48. Value yourself and those who are in your company will reflect the same image.
Steven Cuoco
#49. People who detest their sanity love to tell you they are insane, authors included...and all for a few bucks. Their charlatan madness is masturbation.
W.T. Shad
#50. The Loon Charm
To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home
Viola Shipman
#51. Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.
- Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors
Marie Lu
#52. Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.
A.D. Posey
#54. Men don't fight for what is theirs. They work for it and they love it with all their hearts. When they do that, they want for nothing.
Rebecca Steinbeck
#55. violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
Sanober Khan
#58. Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.
Monica Millner
#59. by allowance" and "loving with personal love." This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There
Jane Austen
#60. I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
Judy Blume
#61. Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love it and some will hate it, but there will always be at least one reader who needed it and that's all that matters!
S.L. Morgan
#62. Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
Shana Chartier
#64. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
#66. I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
Adel Abouhana
#67. I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
Graham Greene
#68. The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
William Goldman
#69. i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother's arms.
Sanober Khan
#70. I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
Judy Blume
#71. When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
Erica Jong
#72. the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul.
Sanober Khan
#73. fierce lovers.
and battle warriors
both come
from the same place.
there is bound
to be,
some bloodshed.
Sanober Khan
#74. This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.
Sanober Khan
#75. I breathe in...
the fragrance
of love, and moist sand
the one
his roses left
on both my hands
I just keep on breathing
every moment
as much as I can
preserving it, in my body
for the day
it can't.
Sanober Khan
#76. Drizzle happiness wherever you go.
A.D. Posey
#78. The kernel of truth sank into the fertile soil of [her] imagination, possibilities for a happy resolution suggesting themselves in vague flashes of potential and promise...
Ana Chapman
#79. Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said.
"It do.
Jesmyn Ward
#80. and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.
Sanober Khan
#81. all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots.
Sanober Khan
#82. Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M.J. Rose
#83. I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
Crystal Woods
#84. Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
Eveli Acosta
#85. I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.
Augusten Burroughs
#86. There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
L.V. Lewis
#87. all my life
i have looked for poems
to elope with.
Sanober Khan
#88. may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to.
Sanober Khan
#89. View other authors as your allies rather than your competition
Shannon Love
#91. Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read.
Chuck Miceli
#92. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
Aberjhani
#93. There are certain authors out there whose books I'll read no matter what they're about. More often than not I don't even need to read the blurb to know that I'll love it. It's that kind of confidence in my work that I hope to earn from my readers someday.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#95. Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
Melodie Campbell
#96. I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
Bruce Forsyth
#97. 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
#98. Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.
Ellen Read
#99. i am permanently
tanned
in the summer of poetry.
Sanober Khan
