Top 35 Quotes About Author's Purpose
#1. I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#3. I always felt I wouldn't be around long. I mean, we live, we die. circle of life. But I feel life now is wasted in front of the Television and computer that we all miss the view of it. I know I was put her for a purpose and I just need to find out what it is.
Sarah Swartz
#4. Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader's attention only as long as the author sustains the reader's trust.
Jonathan Franzen
#5. The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.
S.A. Tawks
#6. Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose.
Stephanie Lahart
#7. Your purpose is not your purpose for being here. Your experience of the feeling of purpose is your purpose for being here!
Noah James Hittner
#8. History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
George W. Bush
#9. Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.
Andy Clark
#10. I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.
~Shin
Ai Yazawa
#11. For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect and phenomena of Nature, as well as with the ideas and associations which these things produce in the human mind.
H.P. Lovecraft
#12. Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#14. Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.
Udai Yadla
#16. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.
Laura Kreitzer
#17. My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus.
Chasta Schneider
#18. My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
Guy Davenport
#19. Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
Zainab Salbi
#21. The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.
Katja Michael
#22. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#23. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#24. Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author.
Debasish Mridha
#27. I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading?
Dean Bokhari
#29. Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#30. My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!
Stephen Richards
#31. What happened to your face?"
"Dentist."
"They're all con artists.
Emma Raveling
#32. We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.
Wynn Mercere
#33. I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.
Ravi Zacharias
#35. Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start by knowing my intention, my target. Then, with purpose, I write the scene that unfolds before me, as faithfully as is human. - Daniel LaMonte
Daniel LaMonte
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