Words Of Wisdom For Authors Quotes & Sayings

I can drive anything on wheels ... I can drive anything, actually. — Stone Cold Steve Austin

ago in your father. I know you will — Christopher Lee Buckner

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. — Jim Butcher

A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable. — Stephanie Lahart

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. — Ben Abix

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers. — Mona Kuhn

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. — Eric Williams

The value of experience, real or imagined, is that is shows us how to - or how NOT to - live. In reading about different characters and the consequences of their choices, I was finding myself changed. I was discovering new and distinct ways of undergoing life's sorrows and joys ...
and all the great books I was reading - were about the complexity and entirety of the human experience. About the things we wish to forget and those we want more and more of. About how we react and how we wish we could react. Books ARE experience, the words of authors proving the solace of love, the fulfillment of family, the torment of war, and the wisdom of memory. Joy and tears, pleasure and pain: everything came to me while I read in my purple chair. i had never sat so still, and yet experienced so much. — Nina Sankovitch

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person. — Philip Yancey

Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person. — Reginald Ray

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public. — Anne Carson

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight. — Anthony Horowitz

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river! — Mark Twain

And here's another order. From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven. You've faced more things this past year than most men face in a lifetime. — George R R Martin

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality. — Kate Millett

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist. — Yehuda Berg

He made her feel small. Since there weren't too many men out there who could make her feel small, this frightened her a bit. It actually frightened her more than the huge sword slung across his back. — Laura Hunsaker

We are all an instrument with a special notation to our individual identity. When you incorporate many beautiful notes together, you envelop a harmonious orchestra. — Steven Cuoco