100 Quotes About Author

With so many authors out there, it can be difficult to pick the right book to read. No matter what your reading preferences, there is surely a quote that will tug at your heart or inspire you. Here are the best quotes by authors that you should check out.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to...
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When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. Roopleen
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What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. Charles Bukowski
Some stories have to be written because no one would...
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Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. Shannon L. Alder
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If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give–the ability to influence. Shannon L. Alder
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Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. Roopleen
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The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts. Roopleen
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the...
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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell Oprah Winfrey
Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give...
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Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up. Germany Kent
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. Dorothy Parker
At the end of the day your ability to connect...
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At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel. Benjamin J. Carey
How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less...
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How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses Germany Kent
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with...
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Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying Germany Kent
Everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost...
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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. AVA.
Don't let your past dictate your future,
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Don't let your past dictate your future, Chris Mentillo
A woman does not become whole until she has a...
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A woman does not become whole until she has a baby. Chris Mentillo
A woman does not become whole, until she has a...
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A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby. Chris Mentillo
A women does not become whole, until she has a...
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A women does not become whole, until she has a baby. Chris Mentillo
Some of the people who hate me love some of...
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Writers are made, they are not born.
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Writers are made, they are not born. Chris Mentillo
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Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today? For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince Lombardi. Nothing surprises me. I never grew-up with prejudices against anyone. I don't care what color you are or where you came from. This sort of stuff to me never made sense. You see I grew up in an "educated family." Education teaches you not to be so ignorant. Chris Mentillo
Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for...
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Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success. Chris Mentillo
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Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today. For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince lombardi. Nothing surprises me. I never grew-up with prejudices against anyone. I don't care what color you are or where you came from. This sort of stuff to me never made sense. You see I grew up in a "educated family." Education teaches you not to be so ignorant. . Chris Mentillo
Start having more confidence in yourself, and others will do...
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Start having more confidence in yourself, and others will do the same. Chris Mentillo
Stop now and decide to never worry again about what...
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Stop now and decide to never worry again about what others think about you. Chris Mentillo
Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the...
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Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks. Chris Mentillo
Get out of your comfort zone and go for it....
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Get out of your comfort zone and go for it. I do this when I apply for lead acting parts in feature movies. Chris Mentillo
Forget about how old you are, and get busy.
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Forget about how old you are, and get busy. Chris Mentillo
You can have practically anything you want in this world,...
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You can have practically anything you want in this world, if you have great credit. Chris Mentillo
When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in...
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When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay. Imania Margria
There is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude, one will empty...
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There is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude, one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose. AVA.
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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. Virginia Woolf
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the...
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Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. Shannon L. Alder
5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post...
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5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value2 Spread positivity3 Create steady stream of info4 Make an impact5 Be yourself Germany Kent
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by...
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It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia....
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All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external. Will Advise
Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your...
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Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open. Imania Margria
Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat,...
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Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat, but being able to inspire the soul as well is true talent. Imania Margria
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In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours. Imania Margria
Be careful because brazen behavior and a powerful mind can...
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Be careful because brazen behavior and a powerful mind can hide a delicate heart. Imania Margria
The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until...
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The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten. The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten. Roman Payne
The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern'sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou...
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The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern'sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it. William Goldman
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The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the next decade or so. Google and other companies are scanning library books into the cloud in a massive Manhattan Project of cultural digitization. What happens next is what's important. If the books in the cloud are accessed via user interfaces that encourage mashups of fragments that obscure the context and authorship of each fragment, there will be only one book. This is what happens today with a lot of content; often you don't know where a quoted fragment from a news story came from, who wrote a comment, or who shot a video. A continuation of the present trend will make us like various medieval religious empires, or like North Korea, a society with a single book. The Bible can serve as a prototypical example. Like Wikipedia, the Bible's authorship was shared, largely anonymous, and cumulative, and the obscurity of the individual authors served to create an oracle-like ambience for the document as "the literal word of God." If we take a non-metaphysical view of the Bible, it serves as a link to our ancestors, a window. The ethereal, digital replacement technology for the printing press happens to have come of age in a time when the unfortunate ideology I'm criticizing dominates technological culture. Authorship - the very idea of the individual point of view - is not a priority of the new ideology. The digital flattening of expression into a global mush is not presently enforced from the top down, as it is in the case of a North Korean printing press. Instead, the design of software builds the ideology into those actions that are the easiest to perform on the software designs that are becoming ubiquitous. It is true that by using these tools, individuals can author books or blogs or whatever, but people are encouraged by the economics of free content, crowd dynamics, and lord aggregators to serve up fragments instead of considered whole expressions or arguments. The efforts of authors are appreciated in a manner that erases the boundaries between them. The one collective book will absolutely not be the same thing as the library of books by individuals it is bankrupting. Some believe it will be better; others, including me, believe it will be disastrously worse. As the famous line goes from Inherit the Wind: 'The Bible is a book.. but it is not the only book' Any singular, exclusive book, even the collective one accumulating in the cloud, will become a cruel book if it is the only one available. . Jaron Lanier
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Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. “Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. “You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man. “Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.” “I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.” “So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?” “Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?” Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. “He is quite sensitive, ” commented The Dry Advisor. “Who is he?” “A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does. Jeff Phillips
You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one...
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You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer. Robin Sacredfire
Things belong to the people that use them, not to...
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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them. John Green
I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.
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I don't spend money on books. I write them myself. Ljupka Cvetanova
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No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it’s a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don’t need anyone to confirm it. . Charlotte Eriksson
What we get when we turn pro is we find...
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What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out. Steven Pressfield
Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge,...
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Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing. Imania Margria
I always look towards the light of my desires, so...
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I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going. Imania Margria
When we release all the negativity in our lives and...
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When we release all the negativity in our lives and notice the beauty all around us, we'll see what truly matters in life. Imania Margria
If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble,...
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If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees. E.a. Bucchianeri
Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light...
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Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within. Cynthia DoughertyBernal
Be the energy you want others to absorb.
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Be the energy you want others to absorb. A.D. Posey
Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.
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Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love. A.D. Posey
Love is alive when there's music in your heart.
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Love is alive when there's music in your heart. A.D. Posey
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When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being criticized on the basis that his work is too 'literal' or too 'common.' But one has rarely if ever heard any definition of 'literal' or 'common.' And there are many artists simply hung up on this, protesting it. Also, some avant-garde schools go completely over the cliff in avoiding anything 'literal' or 'common'–and indeed go completely out of communication! The return flow from the person viewing a work would be contribution. True art always elicits a contribution from those who view or hear or experience it. By contribution is meant 'adding to it.’ An illustration is 'literal' in that it tells everything there is to know. Let us say the illustration is a picture of a tiger approaching a chained girl. It does not really matter how well the painting is executed, it remains an illustration and it is literal. But now let us take a small portion out of the scene and enlarge it. Let us take, say, the head of the tiger with its baleful eye and snarl. Suddenly we no longer have an illustration. It is no longer 'literal.' And the reason lies in the fact that the viewer can fit this expression into his own concepts, ideas or experience: he can supply the why of the snarl, he can compare the head to someone he knows. In short, he can CONTRIBUTE to the head. The skill with which the head is executed determines the degree of response. Because the viewer can contribute to the picture, it is art. In music, the hearer can contribute his own emotion or motion. And even if the music is only a single drum, if it elicits a contribution of emotion or motion, it is truly art. . L. Ron Hubbard
Beauty is light set free.
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Beauty is light set free. A.D. Posey
One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you...
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One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within. A.D. Posey
Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.
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Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing. A.D. Posey
Beauty is a heart with wings.
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Beauty is a heart with wings. A.D. Posey
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of...
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We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. Lailah Gifty Akita
Her words are her wings. She's flying.
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Her words are her wings. She's flying. A.D. Posey
A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and...
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A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly. A.D. Posey
Every day is not a day to master but an...
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Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience. A.D. Posey
Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.
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Be still in peace and reach your highest peak. A.D. Posey
Life is magic.
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Life is magic. A.D. Posey
Kind words change the world.
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Kind words change the world. A.D. Posey
Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.
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Film gives us a second chance at a first impression. A.D. Posey
The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.
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The best writing speaks when the heart whispers. A.D. Posey
Drizzle happiness wherever you go.
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Drizzle happiness wherever you go. A.D. Posey
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Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts. Israelmore Ayivor
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We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us. . Kamand Kojouri
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Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer. Pawan Mishra
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A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story. Pawan Mishra
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Writing a story is like going on a date–you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment. Pawan Mishra
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Tell a story in lesser and simpler words. Pawan Mishra
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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet. Pawan Mishra
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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning. Pawan Mishra
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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart. Pawan Mishra
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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book. Pawan Mishra
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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books. Pawan Mishra
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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature. Pawan Mishra
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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time. Pawan Mishra
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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart. Pawan Mishra
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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words. Pawan Mishra
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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own. Pawan Mishra
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Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases. Pawan Mishra
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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be. Pawan Mishra
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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story. Pawan Mishra
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Some people get offended by what I write, by what I do with my life and by what I say to those they never saw. And they also get offended when told they are too stupid to have the right to judge anyone. These poor souls don't know that respect and intelligence are correlated. Daniel Marques
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Why do you think you are always right?" Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again. Robin Sacredfire
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The written word is greatest sacred documentation. Lailah Gifty Akita
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A pen name is a nickname. A.D. Posey
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Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss. A.D. Posey
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Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime. A.D. Posey
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Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly. A.D. Posey
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Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist. Oliver Markus
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A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost. Shannon L. Alder