Quotes About Being The Author Of Your Own Life

#1. I like acting, alright, and it can be fun sometimes, but the process of it, of not being - not being the author of your own life, I can't take that anymore.

Todd Louiso

#2. The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Steven Erikson

#3. Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

Jennifer Donnelly

#4. An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.

M.J. Stoddard

#5. I like to watch beauty gurus who are younger than me on YouTube to get inspired to take showers. Even just thinking about them is making me pissed and somehow motivated.

Grace Helbig

#6. In his head Beckett put the two of them in a big snow globe with glitter that he could shake when he wanted them to fucking sparkle together. Perfect in their condo with a dog and a kid and glitter.

Debra Anastasia

#7. To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I didn't betray you. I was used. I was set up.

Michael Grant

#9. People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

Jim Lehrer

#10. Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!

Kailin Gow

#11. Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.

Benny Bellamacina

#12. Success in life is about being lucky - ask any failure!

By author: Paul McKenna

Denis John George

#13. I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

Carla H. Krueger

#14. I really enjoy the football season.

Jimmie Johnson

#15. Foreword of my book: The Pawn
"It is being said that time and space could be tied to their creator's stance of what they are to him or her. It can possibly be perceived by those who become the receivers of this viewpoint as something different or the same." (Claire Manning Writer/Author 2016)

Claire Hamelin Manning

#16. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.

Simi Sunny

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

Carla H. Krueger

#18. I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo ... off he went.

Corrie Ten Boom

#19. Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each.

Mark W. Boyer

#20. The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

#21. You are unique, just by being you, in this constellation of shining stars, just continue being you, shine your light on others as you journey through this life.

Author D.L.O'ferrall

D.L. O' Ferrall

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

Nikki Rowe

#23. Every human being is the author of its own health or disease,

Gautama Buddha

#24. The rain made hermits of us all.

John Green

#25. You cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well

Azar Nafisi

#26. If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd,

Jen-Hsun Huang

#27. Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

#28. You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

Richard Wisniewski

#29. Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

Geraldine Solon

#30. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life

Norman Sunshine