Quotes About Successful Author

#1. If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

Christine Elise

#2. I'd like to be a successful author before my hairline recedes further! OK I'm vain

David H. Millar

#3. Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.

Michelle Franklin

#4. I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

Morris Gleitzman

#5. Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

James Rollins

#6. It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

Austin O'Malley

#7. As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author.

Heather Hart

#8. The mark of a successful author isn't whether he/she becomes rich and famous. Success is a story worthy enough to touch, move, or inspire even one reader in a way that is meaningful to them.

Lianne Miller

#9. In a successful launch, the author believes that buying their book is actually a good thing for people to do.

Tim Grahl

#10. Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure ...

Stephen Richards

#11. I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.

Jay McInerney

#12. As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.

Stephen Richards

#13. If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

L.A. Jones

#14. Natalie, who was the author of a series of wildly successful Hunger Games meets Gossip Girl YA books about a clique of girls at a postapocalyptic prep school who have to simultaneously fight for popularity and for the survival of the planet - hadn

Doree Shafrir

#15. Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

B.A. Gabrielle

#16. The author of the extremely successful Twilight series was rejected by 14 different publishers before the 15th picked up Twilight. What would all the tweens do if Bella and Edward hadn't been brought to life?!

Stephenie Meyer

#17. Being impatient is rocket fuel for success. I have seen very few patient successful people. Most are impatient and always ready to move!

Robert D. Kintigh

#18. No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

Stephen Richards

#19. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman

Lauren B. Grossman

#20. Robert Cialdini, author of one of my favorite books, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion, writes: "A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they

Lior Suchard

#21. In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

John Locke

#22. You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Latif Mercado

#23. One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'

Jane Lindskold

#24. An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. My daughter has seen the transition from struggling screenwriter to successful picture book author, and she's enjoyed it very much because she's a wonderful little kid. And she's always believed in her daddy.

Drew Daywalt

#26. Thought and passion = successful manifesting of wishes ...

Stephen Richards

#27. Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.

Andy Paula

#28. A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur - or APE.

Guy Kawasaki