Author Quotes

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

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.

All great authors are seers.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

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

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

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.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

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!

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.

Just as the universe is in constant flux, so too are we in constant change, and we must accept that.

Courage of the mind far surpasses that of the body.

the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.

The word "universe" means "one tune" or "one rhythm", and when we are in tune or in rhythm with it, it cannot help but respond.