Top Authors Quotes

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.

Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway

Be the CEO of your own career.

An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time...

After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next on...

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...