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Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

You're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.

I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

That's a good point," Professor Hirota said. "But there is one thing we ought to keep in mind in the study of man. Namely, that a human being placed in particular circumstances has the ability and the right to do just the opposite of what the circumstances dictate. The trouble is, we have this odd habit of thinking that men and light both act according to mechanical laws, which leads to some stunning errors. We set things up to make a man angry, and he laughs. We try to make him laugh, and again he does the opposite, he gets angry. Either way, though, he's still a human being."Hirota had enlarged the scope of the problem again."Well, then, what you're saying is, no matter what a human being does in a particular set of circumstances, he is being natural," said the novelist at the far end of the table."That's it," Hirota shot back. "It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the world just like him. We humans are simply incapable of imagining non-human actions or behavior. It's the writer's fault if we don't believe in his characters as human beings.

Yes, I am an author. I have written some beautiful love stories and witnessed some ugly relationships.

If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

And you out there: Aren__ you somehow right here with me?

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are forever associated with you, that book and your name. -Word to the Wi

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity