Carla Author Quotes

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling. ~ Daniel Defoe

The greatest hurdle one must overcome along the journey from peasantry to nobility is a commitment to reading and reflection. For nothing distinguishes the nobleman from the peasant more than knowledge and understanding.
Vicar Sayeedi - Author ~ Vicar Sayeedi

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect. ~ Samuel Johnson

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. ~ Harold Holzer

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do. ~ Jonathan Galassi

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world. ~ Shaun Hick

Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching. ~ Unknown Author 909

I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions. ~ Lisa Gardner

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Being an Indie-Author does NOT mean being an amateur. It means being a professional, who prefers to retain control of their work, in order to provide the highest quality for their readers. ~ J. New

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together. ~ Rosie O'Donnell

Author compares the impact of biases to his experience as an average swimmer who overcame a considerable fear of water. While the swimming was easy in one particular experience, he was internally congratulating himself on his acquired skill. But when he realized he was swimming with a current he would now have to fight against, he realized just how definite his limits were. ~ Shankar Vedantam

The reader tries to uncover the skeleton that the book conceals. The author starts with the skeleton and tries to cover it up. His aim is to conceal the skeleton artistically or, in other words, to put flesh on the bare bones. If he is a good writer, he does not bury a puny skeleton under a mass of fat; on the other hand, neither should the flesh be too thin, so that the bones show through. If the flesh is thick enough, and if the flabbiness is avoided, the joints will be detectable and the motion of the parts will reveal the articulation. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you. Not this time. Because we haven't yet met/have only a glancing acquaintance/are just crazy about each other/ haven't seen each other in much too long/are in some way related/will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that, always think fondly of each other ... . This one's for you. With you know what, and you probably know why. ~ Neil Gaiman

Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown. ~ Anurag Anand

If your goals don't inspire you then why should you expect to achieve them? ~ Stephen Richards

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99. ~ Ryan Lilly

I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author; has a trace in real world.A historical fiction completely or partly has happened in the past and a fiction will happen in the future. We are seeing many devices which Jules Verne predicted in his novels!One day you will hear about an invisible fellow. This thought causes motivation and gaiety for me when writing a story. ~ Hamid Karima

Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head. ~ Judah Lee Davis

Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written ... ~ John Kennedy Toole

A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it. ~ Tim Urban

Time is a great teacher, but Cosmic Ordering is a great provider. ~ Stephen Richards

Binders are born, not made. And you are a binder born, boy. You may not like the idea of it much now. But you'll grow to understand. ~ Bridget Collins (author)

Finally, if you're wondering if it counts and it feels like it counts, it counts. ~ Mary H.K. Choi

I believe we must document our past; this tells us who we are and from where we came."
---Author Pamela Clark, from her interview with her publisher. ~ Pamela A. Clark

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment. ~ Alistair Begg

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me. ~ Henry Adams

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author. ~ John Locke

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader. ~ Darrell Case

One hates an author that's all author. ~ Lord Byron

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. ~ Wilson Mizner

Positive thinking without any thought is wasted ... ~ Stephen Richards

He has tongue of a writer. ~ Toba Beta

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now. ~ Paul Ryan

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified! ~ Eudora Welty

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. ~ Unknown Author 429

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player. ~ Stephen Richards

There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does. ~ Millicent Ashby

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. . . . The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. ~ C.S. Lewis

[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of the world in which they live. In other words, the narrator is the prisoner of his own premises. ~ Umberto Eco

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had time, I would become timeless. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova