authors

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.__ Christa Desir

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.

To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family__ had to suffer for that, that I haven__ done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

I thought it was a novel.___t is.___hat__ it about??___ou__l have to buy it to find out, but it__ got everything: love, death and an amusing dog.___his one__ got a recipe for apple crumble,_ I said.__on__ you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?_ he said.

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.