Top Authors Quotes

I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and wha...

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not....

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.

Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.

...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter w...

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair,...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.