Authors Life Quotes

You heard me cry long before I knew my voice. ~ A.D. Posey

Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes. ~ Sanober Khan

Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. ~ Lorrie Moore

It is important to be present emotionally and mentally to enjoy the process. The process is the most important because it is the seed for which you are nourishing. The hustle will always be there. It is important to understand what kind of dance you are having with the hustle in determining who is in control and leading the dance. If the hustle is in control, then it has been determined you are not. And outside forces and circumstances are in control of your life and your opportunities. ~ Steven Cuoco

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. ~ Andre Maurois

Read with a vengeance, as if the author's life is on trial, because nothing will have such an impact and be a better investment than owning, reading, and re-reading books that will change the way you think, write, and speak. ~ Chris Erzfeld

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can't be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author's Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined ... ~ Muriel Spark

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine! ~ Ace Antonio Hall

You deserve more in your life. Think big. Love more and share beyond your limits. You will then become limitless. ~ Steven Cuoco

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. ~ Sanober Khan

In this time of Covid-19 I feel an overwhelming exhilaration every morning that I have survived to see another day, and on Monday mornings that feeling of elation endows me with colorful words to express my gratitude to God for his gift of life. ~ Fidelis O. Mkparu, 2020

this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures. ~ Sanober Khan

you were
and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees

that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories. ~ Sanober Khan

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. ~ Anne Michaels

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors. ~ Eleanor Catton

The life we're given is on a thread, so wear it well. ~ Benny Bellamacina

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ~ Joseph Addison

Life is uncertain.
Today you get a rose.
Tomorrow you feel the thorns.
But the end result is red, always!! ~ Shillpi S Banerrji

It seems to me that no autobiography can claim to document every detail of the author's life. That's impossible. There are ~ Sachin Tendulkar

You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind. ~ Frederick Lenz

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Education does not define you as a "HUMAN BEING" your actions does. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. ~ Barbara De Angelis

Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed. ~ Archibald Marwizi

People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities. ~ Colson Whitehead

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you. ~ Paulo Coelho

And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much. ~ K.d. Lang

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death. ~ Salman Rushdie

It was hoped we might have two lives - the way cats are said to have nine. This life we ruined, and another, for after. ~ Nova Ren Suma

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream. ~ Leonor Fini

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does. ~ Tertullian

Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may not reflect back to us our power to influence life or the web of relationships that connects us. Life responds to us anyway. We all have the power to affect others. We may affect those we know and those we do not even know at all ... Without our knowing, we may influence the lives of others in very simple ways. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

We're always talking about following your passion. But we're all part of the flow of history ... you've got to put something back into the flow of history that's going to help your community ... People will say, this person didn't just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from. ~ Steve Jobs

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. ~ Denis Waitley

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know
is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale. ~ Suzy Kassem

The world didn't have words to measure hate. There were tons, yards, years. Volts, knots, watts. Ronan could explain how fast his car was going. He could describe exactly how warm the day was. He could specifically convey his heart rate. But there was no way for him to tell anyone else exactly how much he hated Aglionby Academy.
Any unit of measurement would have to include both the volume and the weight of the hate. And it would also have to include a component of time. The days logged in class, wasted, useless, learning skills for a life he didn't want. No single word existed, probably, to contain the concept. All, perhaps. He had all the hate for Aglionby Academy.
Thief? Aglionby was the thief. Ronan's life was the dream, pillaged. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice. ~ David Hawkins

For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake -with our minds, hearts, and hands- to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea -that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet. ~ Carl Safina

So it's 2019. I'm gonna say the right thing to do is for the US to declare bankruptcy (Trump can do it… done it before…), and dismantle the criminal state of Israel as it exists today. Unfortunately, politicians are so full of shit and AIPAC money, and the economy is so addicted to war, and the US population is so fucking stupid... that we'll probably have to go and try to fuck up another two or three countries before moving on to a decent, honest life. ~ Dmitry Dyatlov

Leadership is a Requirement for Survival and a Prerequisite for Success. ~ Noel DeJesus

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task. ~ Jostein Gaarder

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ... ~ Chico Xavier

You are going to meet
two kinds of people in your life,
some will find you in tranquility
and leave you broken,
some will meet you in turmoil
and lead you to serenity
- peace and agitation ~ Jyoti Patel

You cannot act in the old way, as you got used to, as you have been programmed in your childhood, you will have to change yourself or otherwise you will not survive ~ Sunday Adelaja

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can. ~ George Matthew Adams

You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs. ~ Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others. ~ Jonathan Winters

It's about life, where the tiniest misstep can have tragic consequences." "Oh, ~ Philip Roth

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach. ~ Calvin Harris

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. ~ Rob Sheffield

Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings. ~ Deborah Sandella

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. ~ Dave Reichert

Oh, if only this new, bright life would come sooner, when one could look one's fate directly and boldly in the eye, be conscious of one's rightness, be cheerful, free! And this life would come sooner or later! ~ Anton Chekhov

Say NO to negativity and say YES to positivity. Negativity has no place in your life. ~ Stephanie Lahart

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit. ~ Michael A. Stackpole

Live your life as if it was written by Aaron Sorkin ~ Jonah Bergan

Plants are our food, oxygen, and medicine. Some even say they are one of the most pleasurable experiences on earth! From the flowers to the trees and the seas filled with coral dreams; the earth's natural flora has inspired and enhanced humans for as long as time can tell. That's why the power of plants is the key to unlocking our enjoyment of life. ~ Natasha Potter

She tells of moments when she would forget, when her own simmering evil would seem to dissipate and let through the clear spectacle of life. One had to be careful of those moments, because they were fleeting and intended not for her but instead for the delectation of other children of God. Or, if they were meant for her, they could break her heart as easily as mend it ... ~ Alden Bell

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Pliny the Elder once said that the Romans, when they couldn't make a building beautiful, made it big. The practice continues to be popular: If we can't do it well, we make it larger. We add dollars to our income, rooms to our houses, activities to our schedules, appointments to our calendars. And the quality of life diminishes with each addition. On the other hand, every time that we retrieve a part of our life from the crowd and respond to God's call to us, we are that much more ourselves, more human. Every time we reject the habits of the crowd and practice the disciplines of faith, we become a little more alive. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money. ~ John Lennon

Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them. ~ Adam Johnson

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful. ~ Al McGuire

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always. ~ Afrojack

Everything had changed.Everything was different. And he was desperate to tell her. Cam knew his life
had turned on its axis yet again. And somehow he'd ended up exactly where he needed to be.
The only thing missing was Anna. ~ Nora Roberts

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans. ~ Orrin Hatch

If we don't control our schedule - our schedule will control us. If we don't find a way to live a balanced life -our lives will get out of balance. ~ Wayde Goodall