Teen Author Quotes

Always be true to yourself and live your best life. ~ John R. Miller

All living things have the ability to flourish when they are tended with gentle hands. ~ Erin Forbes

I hear nothing but the hustle and bustle of the city. Cars with flashing lights zip past me. People talk, some loud, some quiet. I whisper to myself. "This is what it's like to go unnoticed." I take in a deep breath and inhale the freezing air. It smells like ice here. Ice and cigarettes. ~ Rachel Ellynn M.

One cannot expect to travel far without faith. ~ Erin Forbes

Our lives are composed of unexpected moments and unforgettable adventures. ~ Erin Forbes

Own the moment or the moment will own you ~ Daren Martin

Do not stand up against a bully alone. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands. ~ Ian McEwan

Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary. ~ Mary M. Forbes

As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ... ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Stand firm, speak up - because silence is not golden, instead, it is deadly. Do not ignore being bullied, because it will never stop. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I want to kiss the shit out of her right now.
"Are we really going to do this?" she whispers.
I can't help what I do next. Moving fast, I skim my mouth over hers, superfast, just one fleeting caress of our lips, but it's everything.
Everything. ~ Siobhan Davis

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence. ~ Karl Barth

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ~ Roman Payne

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. ~ Thomas Carlyle

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. ~ Wale

Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africans did not cooperate with slave ships. To ease their guilty consciences, Europeans try to throw the major responsibility for the slave trade on to the Africans. One major author on the slave trade (appropriately titled Sins of Our Fathers) explained how many white people urged him to state that the trade was the responsibility of African chiefs, and that Europeans merely turned up to buy captives- as though without European demand there would have been captives sitting on the beach by the millions! Issues such as those are not the principal concern of this study, but they can be correctly approached only after understanding that Europe became the center of a world-wide system and that it was European capitalism which set slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in motion. Pg. 82 ~ Walter Rodney

The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards. ~ Sam Harris

Spread sunshine and inspiration. ~ Juliet M. Sampson

Be The Leader, Author, & Star of Your Own Life Story! ~ Naryza

You mean we're going chronological order within each author?" he gasped. "But no one even knows for sure when Shakespeare wrote his plays!"
"Well," I blustered, "we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The Tempest. I'd like to see that reflected on our shelves."
George says that was one of the few times he has seriously contemplated divorce. ~ Anne Fadiman

driver's side opened, and someone got in and sat down. He didn't turn to see who it was, because by this point he was unable to take his eyes off the hospital entrance. "I went to Marinella to look for you," said Fazio, "but you weren't there. Then I realized you'd be here, and so I came." Montalbano didn't answer. Half an hour later, he saw Garrufo come out, bent over, face in his hands, weeping. "Take me home," he said to Fazio. He leaned his head back against the headrest and closed his eyes, at last. Click here for more books by this author. ~ Andrea Camilleri

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About. ~ Nicholas Dettmann

(on the Pip and Squeak asking for a taxi tip)
"How about a tip?"
"Here's a tip," I said. "Next time you're at the library, check out a book about a champion of the world."
"By that author with all the chocolate?"
"Yes, but this one's even better It has some very good chapters in it."
"That's the kind of tip we can use," Squeak said. "Pip reads to me between fares. ~ Lemony Snicket

Convincing Lana I forgive her for what she did is the least of it.
I have years of stupid mistakes to make up for. ~ Siobhan Davis

I can speak up for myself, but I decided you are not worth my time. You do not have the power to bully me anymore. I know who I am. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. ~ Charles Dickens

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. ~ Terry Pratchett

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

If you can make it down to the pub, the pub will make it up to you. ~ Benny Bellamacina

Do many guys ask you out twice?"
"Only the ones with balls. ~ Cath Crowley

Scotch Kirk, speaking of the precept uttered by Confucius, five hundred years before the time assigned for the birth of Jesus of Nazareth ("Whatsoever ye would not that others should do unto you, do not ye unto them"), says: "That Confucius is the author of this precept is undisputed, and therefore it is indisputable that Christianity has incorporated an article of Chinese morality. ~ Thomas William Doane

According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also have to do with cleaning up. Cleaning up lies and "coming out of the closet" is getting more attention these days. Some day we will look back on these years of suffocation in bullsh*t in the same way we look back on all the years people lived in, and died from, their garbage. ~ Brad Blanton

[Lockyer] ... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.
[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.] ~ James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me... ~ Deyth Banger

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst. ~ John Kasich

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state. ~ Heather Brooke