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An idea can be born from many things. Dreams, food, people... Ideas are everywhere. It's up to you on how you utilize them.
— B.A. Gabrielle
I love every single character in my books. Killing a character of causes me physical pain... It's like ripping a band-aid off too fast.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Do you know what the best thing about a conscience is? You can never mute it. It's an unlimited stream of ideas flowing into your mind.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle!
— B.A. Gabrielle
Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!
— B.A. Gabrielle
Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Your imagination is a very important thing because nobody can take that away from you. No one can look in your head and read your thoughts.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don’t search for you they don’t find you. They don’t take notice of you. They don’t even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia!
— Lily Amis
I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Age does not matter if you're chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you'll see some progress.
— B.A. Gabrielle
When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.
— B.A. Gabrielle
A review is a double-edged sword. It will either get people interested, or it might drive people away before they even click "buy".
— B.A. Gabrielle
A good way to never run out of ideas? Surround yourself with interesting people, then think about how you can make them into characters.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Always make sure to write down whatever you can remember dreaming about. Dreams are just dormant ideas. It's up to you how you use them.
— B.A. Gabrielle
I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have a never ending imagination.
— B.A. Gabrielle
When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don't hold anything back.
— B.A. Gabrielle
I like writing multiple stories at once. It's fun to change my mindset and get transformed into a different story when I feel like it.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it.
— B.A. Gabrielle
If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas.
— B.A. Gabrielle
When you're sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you're passionate and sick, you'll find a way to write down something.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?
— B.A. Gabrielle
Don't wonder why your time hasn't come yet. When you plant a seed, it always takes a while to grow. Don't be hasty. Think, plan, hustle.
— B.A. Gabrielle
If you have a surprise idea, don't let it go! No matter if it's 4 AM, 6 AM or 12 AM, don't let it go! It might have been a great one!
— B.A. Gabrielle
Life is like a diamond. More you trim it, more it becomes beautiful...
— Naeem Baig
Security is superstitious. It doesn't exist in nature
— Naeem Baig
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We are never going to get the results and take empowered action when our mindsets are in opposition to our desires
— Gina Carré, Designer Mindset: Change your mind, Change your life
authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
The true Entrepreneurship doesn't means to be your own boss, rather it is the thirst to follow your heart and work with the team of visionaries!
— Ujjwal Chugh, How to Crack the SSB - Services Selection Board
Yes, yes, yes we say,without a thought for the day.Running and fretting to make ends meetrushing from Susie to Joe and to Pete.Our lives, in upheaval, have turned to a tizzy,never completing, because we're too busy.All we must do for a tranquil soulis employ a word, just one, called NO.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!
— William Shakespeare
To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!
— David Maxwell
...about a spiritual path, seeing the validity in all paths, and knowing that religion can help or hamper the path. The teachings in every religion are valuable. It is humanity that has bogged down in dogma and rules. Loving and practicing the teachings that ring true is the key.
— Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Living Hope: Steps to Leaving Suffering Behind
When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet.
— Cédric Klapisch
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.
— Tracy Millosovich
It’s like people immediately imagine me sitting in some gothic, sweeping castle in Edinburgh, a piece of fine bone china full of English tea next to my neat writing station. They think that my car, my purse, my everything was financed by my lucrative but somehow not too time consuming writing career. I’ve even had one guy ask me if my hand cramps at signings. While I wanted to give a snarky, “Yes, just like Tom Brady’s does,” I can’t pull off snarky. My sarcasm immediately goes into b**ch territory
— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.
— Dashiell Hammett
The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author does not precede the works, he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and recomposition of fiction. In fact, if we are accustomed to presenting the author as a genius, as a perpetual surging of invention, it is because, in reality, we make him function in exactly the opposite fashion. One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverse is, one has an ideological production). The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.In saying this, I seem to call for a form of culture in which fiction would not be limited by the figure of the author…
— Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to saying that the author is the genial creator of a work in which he deposits, with infinite wealth and generosity, an inexhaustible world of significations. We are used to thinking that the author is so different from all other men, and so transcendent with regard to all languages that, as soon as he speaks, meaning begins to proliferate, to proliferate indefinitely.
— Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, “sacralized” and “sacralizing” figures) to the extent that authors became subject to punishment, that is, to the extent that discourses could be transgressive. In our culture (and doubtless in many others), discourse was not originally a product, a thing, a kind of goods; it was essentially an act _ an act placed in the bipolar field of the sacred and the profane, the licit and the illicit, the religious and the blasphemous. Historically, it was a gesture fraught with risks before becoming goods caught up in a circuit of ownership.
— Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the real and exterior individual who produced it; instead, the name seems always to be present, marking off the edges of the text, revealing, or at least characterizing, its mode of being. The author’s name manifests the appearance of a certain discursive set and indicates the status of this discourse within a society and a culture. It has no legal status, nor is it located in the fiction of the work; rather, it is located in the break that founds a certain discursive construct and its very particular mode of being. As a result, we could say that in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the “author-function”, while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer_ it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor_ it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer_ but not an author. The author-function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.
— Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
Keep Reading.Keep Writing.Keep Pushing yourself!And never stop learning!We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".
— Darynda Jones, The Curse of Tenth Grave
Raising d'être(reason for being)
— Jennifer Pierre
One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.
— C.S. Woolley
And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.
— Edward Gorey
Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would go every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life is that the days aren't long enough to write all the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts I'm thinking. I've finished the second draft of my book and am going to begin the third tomorrow morning at half-past seven. It's the sweetest book you ever saw— it is, truly. I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in the morning to dress and eat before beginning; then I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so tired that I'm limp all over.
— Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
Every reader can live One Thousand and One Lives; every fiction author can have One Thousand and One Masks, and their talent can have One Thousand and One Facets.
— Lara Biyuts
For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.
— E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.
— Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.
— David Foster Wallace
Did you know that many people can not "see" the Man in the Moon? Their eyes and brains cannot put together the "face:" the two eyes, the nose, and the mouth. It's not mentioned to belittle anyone. It is mentioned for awareness, and for scientific knowledge of the human brain. For in fact, the Man in the Moon most certainly sees us.
— Margaret Aranda
A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think.
— Margaret Aranda
Don’t ever yell at me. I don’t yell, so talk to me in a regular voice.
— Margaret Aranda
Happiness is a reflection of how you perceive the moment
— Jane Emery
Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.
— Douglas Adams
*Persistence is more important than perfection. If at first you don’t succeed, it doesn’t matter as long as you always try, try again; *Small improvements, made consistently, add up; *You cannot fail unless you quit. What most people call failures are merely unsuccessful experiments. Failures are bumps on the road as long as your story remains a work in progress; *You can always do better with what you already have - and often, it’s much smarter to find ways to do so than to invest time and money trying something entirely new as your next one sure thing; *And most importantly, being good doesn’t matter nearly as much as being slightly better than yesterday.
— Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt, David W. Wright
A writer only begins a book.  A reader finishes it.
— Samuel Johnson
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
— Britt Holewinski
If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Stantasyland: Quips, Quotes & Quandaries
The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs – the word is not too extreme – to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us.
— Victor Hugo
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.
— Daniel Marques
If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.
— Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me.
— Xue Mo
When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!
— Stuart J. Scesney
When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!
— Stuart J. Scesney
The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.
— Alisha "Priti" Kirpalani
When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!
— Stuart J. Scesney
Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.
— Stuart J. Scesney
This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn’t look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression
— Stephen Richards, Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
Beside every great writer is a great listener.
— Nanette L. Avery
Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn’t hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.
— Kathy  Parks
The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.
— Stuart J. Scesney
There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less comfortable.
— Stuart J. Scesney
Live the dream awake.
— Tia Walker
I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Every programmer is an author.
— Sercan Leylek
Be persistent and have faith and you can achieve anything.
— Martha Hamlett
The Raven's author_ _ _Walked down the road, abbreviated so we're told. _ _ The bus came by and one departed,That is to say, he got this. _ _ _Come on now, it's time to play. When water's cold it is that way. _ _ _Put the pieces together, then roll you die. Natural 20! Flying higt!Find the boxes, nearly there:Level up to 7, here is there.
— Megan Frazer Blakemore, The Friendship Riddle
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and "fall into a vortex" as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. Her "scribbling suit" consisted of a black woollen pinafore on which she could wipe her pen at will, and a cap of the same material, adorned with a cheerful red bow, into which she bundled her hair when the decks were cleared for action. This cap was a beacon to the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept their distance, merely popping in their heads semi-occasionally, to ask, with interest, "Does genius burn, Jo?" They did not always venture even to ask this question, but took an observation of the cap, and judged accordingly. If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on; in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew; and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor. At such times the intruder silently withdrew; and not until the red bow was seen gayly erect upon the gifted brow, did any one dare address Jo.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.
— Adam Steven Page
Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness.
— Chris Salamone
Chris Salamone’s another focus in the book was on the declining level of society that is characterized by an attitude of entitlement with principles of leadership.
— Chris Salamone
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Throw away the rule book and create your own.
— Sandra Bellamy
If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach.
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
Humbleness, modest and down to earth that recognize the real power and true sense of values towards the achievement of good life and enduring everlasting qualities.
— Chris Salamone
The first and foremost leadership quality is Honesty, the business and its employees are a reflection of a leader and as a result the ethical behavior will be followed by everyone in the team
— Chris Salamone, Rescue America: Our Best America Is Only One Generation Away
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!
— Funny, Humor, Screenwri
Chris Salamone’s law program focuses on guest lecturers that are taken by the members of the Department of Justice and attorneys
— Chris Salamone, Rescue America: Our Best America Is Only One Generation Away
Please don't ask me to remember things that are going on around me... I have a dozen other lives I do that for every day in my head.
— Jennifer Byars
We create our destiny by dreaming bigger than most people would think reasonable, by believing in ourselves more than most people would think sensible, by making decisions that most people would think illogical and continuing to act way beyond the point that most people would have given up.
— Andrew Jobling, Accidental Author
An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
With his extensive experience of over two decades in the law field, Chris Salamone is the present CEO of the law firm, Chris M. Salamone & Associates
— Chris Salamone, Rescue America: Our Best America Is Only One Generation Away
All life`s achievements proceed from the Author of life.
— Sunday Adelaja
With tens of thousands of dollars in annual educator-directed scholarships to the teachers, he has encouraged teachers to help their students by deferring the cost of various LeadAmerica programs.
— Chris Salamone
Chris Salamone is the founder of the LeadAmerica Foundation and extends a remarkable amount of financial support to fund the education of more than 300 children in Haiti.
— Chris Salamone
As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Courtroom experience is one of the most important factors that is crucial for a successful career of a lawyer
— Chris Salamone
If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
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.
— Graham Moore, The Sherlockian
Chris has turned out to be a revolutionary leader who started businesses for the first time of its kind that influenced the nation’s young blood and across the world.
— csalamone
Chris says that Creativity, is the most crucial for the leader to think out of the box and provide the best way of getting things done.
— Chris Salamone
why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life.
— Lori Kay
I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Chris M. Salamone is a highly recognized Legal professional currently living in Boca Raton. He has over 20 years of experience in his career, he has helped thousands of young Americans to grow personally and professionally.
— csalamone
I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Attorney Chris Salamone served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC). He spends lots of dedicated hours in creating the programs for the college lectures in assisting the new young rising scholar and motivate them to attend university.
— Chris Salamone
If you can't be an author, be a book
— Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash, sivaprakash, sidh
I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Lacanian Author
Attorney Chris Salamone served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).
— Chris Salamone
Chris enjoys spending quality time while cooking, wine tasting, attending opera, playing golf, and practicing martial arts – JiuJitsu.
— Chris Salamone
Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.
— Patricia V. Davis, Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece
We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes.
— Glad Munaiseche
Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book AwardsHard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial. I see my own publishers, in a silly panic of ignorance and greed, charging public libraries for an e-book six or seven times more than they charge customers. We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience, and writers threatened by corporate fatwa. And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this – letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write.Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.I’ve had a long career as a writer, and a good one, in good company. Here at the end of it, I don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. We who live by writing and publishing want and should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away.
— David John Griffin
Chris Salamone's characteristics & willingness to perform more than others simply makes him stand out in public and differentiate him from those who are not successful
— Chris Salamone
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.
— Earl M. Coleman
Chris Salamone donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to education and leadership development as Chairman of the LeadAmerica Foundation. With his passion in studying and singing opera, he is trained in the martial arts of Jyu Ryu and Miyama Ryu Combat Jujitsu.
— Chris Salamone
If I had time, I would become timeless.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.
— V.M. Sawh
I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
Plan, prepare and grow. Repeat.
— Kiersten Kindred
Chris Salamone has create and develop educational and leadership development programs for our nation's youth and young adults that have provided many opportunities for students to grow and develop.
— Chris Salamone
Chris Salamone, the respected attorney, entrepreneur, and thought leader, defines true leadership in this video and shares the story of Amber and how a girl with terminal cancer embodied true leadership.
— Chris Salamone
As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college dropout education, Carl managed to reach six figures as a mobile home lot manager when the trailer park industry boomed in the early nineties. He decorated his accomplishments with a large house, yachts, and weekly morale shindigs for his salesmen bursting with open bars and filet mignon. However, my mother was by far his prettiest accessory.
— Magda Young
The more we understand how we individually operate, the easier it is for us to understand that we are all similar..from the same human race;doing the best we can based on the programmings that we've each acquired. Then, we never have to take things personally, because then we comprehend the fact that we are just like birds: same race, same tribe, but flying with different types of wings." :)
— Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana
Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page.
— Theodore Volgoff
When I started this book last year, I had a small reception in mind. A few copies in my hand to share with close friends, maybe a small gathering... I never imagined that my book would have its own ISBN number and be available to the public. I never imagined seeing my name next to the words, "published author." I feel so thankful that this has worked out so well for me. God is good!
— Kristyn Van Cleave
Authors - trust in your vision.
— V.M. Sawh
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
— Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading
In my world," said Posy, "authors write stories, and the characters do whatever the author tells them. It's not like this--the characters don't have minds and lives of their own.""How do you know this?" was Caris' surprising reply. The corner of her mouth turned up in a playful smile. "You do not see the characters when the pages of the book are shut. Is there never a time when you read a book for the second time and you notice something that you didn't remember from the first time? Or hear a story told, and every time it is told it grows and changes in the telling? Change is the nature of everything.
— Ashlee Willis, The Word Changers
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What most people don't realize is that when you decide to write and publish a book, it's not for stardom, or for fame, it's because you have a story that's inside of you that is dying to get out! You don't just come up with it one day, it's a thought that evolves into something unimaginable beautiful...
— Sontia Levy-Mason
It doesn't matter what you look like when you see in the mirror, what matters most, is how you feel about yourself.
— Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert
— Bonnie Marlewski-Probert
You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.
— Andrew Lennon
The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.
— Alex G. Zarate
The only way that your work will truly find an audience is if it is genuine.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney
144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand.
— Chris Crutcher
At one point in my life I was a disappointment. I have popped pills, drugs, cheated, lied, and killed. But, at this moment in my life, I am very successful because not one of those things describes my character.
— Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
— Cornelia Funke
As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.
— W. Terry Whalin, Book Proposals That Sell: 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success
Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about writing. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
I am a chaotic blend of all the worst traits.
— Suzie Jay
Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning in a bottle…
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.
— Paul Park, All Those Vanished Engines
You're only as good as your last article, so make it memorable.
— Morgan Amos
The author is still dead, folks!!
— A. Cretan
Your hair is your halo, Wear it well!
— Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
You should author the narration of your life and organization. If you don't, someone will, and you may not like it.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Forgiveness is a highly yielding tool for success. The ROI in it never drops.
— Phumi Ngwane
NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHORPer G.G.,Chief of Ordnance
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Spread sunshine and inspiration.
— Juliet M. Sampson
I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck
— Greig Beck
First of all is the fact that I have some rather good turns of phrase. I don't say that pridefully ... it's just that when a line I forgot about smacks me in the face and says, "Look at me! Aren't I lovely?" I have to notice.
— Rachel Heffington
When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
It doesn't matter if your life is perfect as long as your hair color is.
— Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
A mirror creates the illusion of distance which makes the client feel more comfortable as he or she shares deep, personal details with their stylist.
— StacyK
Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.
— Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum
The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.
— Angela T. Jones
Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
— Gary Zukav
If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.-Suzanne Steele
— Suzanne Steele
I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities.
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn)
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.
— Deborah L. Parker, Navigating Life's Roadways: Stories of Insight from My Odyssey and Inspiration for Your Journey
To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the temporal with an intellectual engagement of body, soul, spirit, and mind. To write, therefore is to entangle the mysteries of the universe in a collection of words, a web of ideas, a single drop of ink on a page.
— Charles M. Heyworth
But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.
— Paul Collins
A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North.
— Jason W. Blair
I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.
— Shandy L. Kurth
You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
I am deliriously in love with GIF reviews. That is all.
— Lisa Marie Perry
Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Love yourself unconditionally.Do what you love to do.Be grateful for what you do have.Happiness is an attitude of gratitude.Love all of life.
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are!
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.
— Elizabeth George, Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.
— Slicktor Victor Robinson
pssst . . .your soul is calling you to freedom love and play!
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.
— Elizabeth George
I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
— Kerouac
The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.
— Ben Midland
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki
— Julia Suzuki, Yoshiko and the Gift of Charms
Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it.
— Debbie Tosun Kilday, No Limits: How I Beat The Slots
Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him.
— Ben Midland
Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.
— Geraldine Solon, Authorpreneur in Pajamas
Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.
— Ben Midland
Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.
— Debbie Tosun Kilday, No Limits: How I Beat The Slots
Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.
— Ben Midland
To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.
— Ben Midland
The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.
— Ben Midland
The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.
— Ben Midland
As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.
— Geraldine Solon, Authorpreneur in Pajamas
In real life, Snow White stays dead and Rapunzel grows old, alone in her tower. In real life, you gotta have enough sense to stay away from ugly bitches offering you shiny apples and have enough balls to cut off your own hair and use it as a ladder if needs be. In real life, you gotta save yourself and the only happy endings are the ones paid for in massage parlors.
— Amy Sumida, Godhunter
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.
— Violette Leduc
You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION!Birgit Von Schondorf
— Birgit Von Schondorf
A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...
— Cynthia Batten, The Eyes of Alexander
A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten
— Cynthia Batten, The Eyes of Alexander
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
— Sara Sheridan
I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness…you wish they were there to enjoy it. I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is I’m here smiling & I know how much she’d like to see that.
— Brandon Villasenor, I Can't Stop Drinking About You
The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often
—  books don't
Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop
— Vanessa Vanney Thompson, Words of Expressions on a Page: Poetry Love
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Money doesn't make the things you need. People do.
— Raven Moore, Padre!: A Place Whose Rules Rearrange Your Own
Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.
— Raven Moore
Being positive at the worst time is the best time.
— Raven Moore
Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization—of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.
— Laini Taylor
There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good?...You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life...Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone.
— Oprah Winfrey
He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!
— Darnaya Darice
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
— Michael J. Kannengieser, The Daddy Rock
If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!
— K. Hari Kumar
If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!
— Leslie Austin
Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a moronic drinking game that later evolved into the imperial measurement system.
— Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
My favorite thing is when people underestimate me.
— Cat Spydell, The Fairies of Feyllan
You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you.
— Katrina Rose
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
— T.S. Eliot
But as an escort it’s our duty to hold their attention and play with their heads. The one between their ears and the one in their pants.
— S.K. Logsdon, Artful Attractions
It's more important to be read than paid.
— S.L. Walker
A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing
— Eugène Ionesco
The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else.
— Michael Houbrick
Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.
— Leslie Austin, A Fox Called Woff
Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.
— Doug Pedersen
The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?
— Doug Pedersen
Chances multiply when you take them.
— Doug Pedersen