Top 100 Quotes About Life Author
#1. What happens to you does not matter; what you become through those experiences is all that is significant. This is the true meaning of life." -- author unknown,
Erin Arvedlund
#2. Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind.
John Green
#3. 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
#4. You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
Ricky Mathieson
#5. 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
#7. For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#8. Life is all about Ass. You're either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, bursting it, or trying to get a piece of it.
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#10. Life is a book and you are its author. You detemine its plot and pace and you--only you--turn its pages.
Beth Mende Conny
#11. God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#12. Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.
Stephen Richards
#13. Life is hard, but it's also crazy-beautiful. Fight for your best life. You deserve it.
Carmen Rodrigues
#15. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. Pillow
#16. A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.
Anthony Marra
#17. 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
#18. Every man is the author of his own life.
Paul Auster
#19. It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#20. The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds.
Tehya Sky
#21. Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#22. 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
#23. I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!
Latif Mercado
#24. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL
Michelle M. Pillow
#25. Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.
Raven Moore
#26. Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.
S.A. Tawks
#27. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?
Robert D. Kintigh
#28. When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.
Stephanie Lahart
#29. Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.
Sophie Kinsella
#30. Everyone in our town has a story
but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.
Carsten Jensen
#31. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.
N.A. Koziol
#33. The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.
Katja Michael
#34. I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
Mark Batterson
#35. In life comes:Tradgey,Power,Pride,Faith
Author, Regina Dorsey tells her life story of how it was.
Regina Dorsey
#36. As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.
Michelle M. Pillow
#37. 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
#38. Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
#39. 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
#40. Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
Susan Glaspell, author
Susan Glaspell
#41. If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.
Stephen Richards
#42. The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.
Marvin Ammori
#43. Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it!
Stephen Richards
#44. On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.
Sheeja Jose
#46. Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Tabatha Coffey
#47. Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
Ace Antonio Hall
#48. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Aberjhani
#49. You know,(in Life) everyone's an author, We need to read each other more and kindly respond.
James Francis
#50. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Carla H. Krueger
#52. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.
Nikki Rowe
#53. Things that only a writer would understand - you're writing a character - you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.
Lisa Marbly-Warir
#54. 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
#55. I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
Tawni O'Dell
#56. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]
Cormac McCarthy
#57. Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.
Geraldine Solon
#58. Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.
Paul Gibbons
#59. I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs
Les Brown
#61. Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.
Ismail Kadare
#62. Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn't. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he'd turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn't Fancy; he was a farmer.
Sandra Neil Wallace
#64. You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
Richard Wisniewski
#65. Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
Steve Maraboli
#66. An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers.
Joseph Conrad
#68. Should you ever be so lucky as to encounter an author in your life, you should shower her or him with gifts and praise. Sir
Jonathan Auxier
#69. The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work.
Benny Bellamacina
#70. 'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.
Tess Gerritsen
#72. To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#73. At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.
Eric Walters
#74. I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.
Carew Papritz
#75. In the meantime, without realising it, I had learned a valuable lesson - in the need for an author to have a total belief in their characters if they are to come alive!
Robin Rowles
#76. Make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on!
Oladosu Feyikogbon
#77. When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.
#minoradjustments101
Michael L. Williams Jr.
#78. When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
Carla H. Krueger
#80. To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does.
Pat Conroy
#81. He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
R.C. Sproul
#83. The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.
R.S. Guthrie
#84. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
Shandy L. Kurth
#85. Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live." ~Mercy~
Lucian Bane
#86. 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
#88. 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
#89. The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.
Paul C. Nagel
#90. There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.
Leon Bloy
#91. Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.
Scott Adams
#92. An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: "The biggest problem in my life," he said, "is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine.
Chuck Klosterman
#93. 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
#94. Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.
Today is the day you become a writer.
Alessandra Torre
#95. Live each day as if it were the first day of marriage and the last day of vacation.
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#96. Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?
Michelle M. Pillow
#97. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
Chris Everheart
#98. Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
Laurence Housman
#99. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
Milan Kundera
#100. Shigure: G'morning.
Tohru: Good morning!
Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's night. Why don't you get a normal sleep pattern?
Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to.
Natsuki Takaya
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