Unbounded Author Quotes

So what if you believe it can't be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars. ~ Teyla Branton

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;
... In wit, as nature, what effects our hearts
Is not th'exactness of peculiar parts;
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all. ~ Alexander Pope

Literature for me ... tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. ~ Geoff Ryman

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you! ~ Chrys Phillips

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money. ~ Stephen Richards

We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes. ~ Glad Munaiseche

An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER! ~ Johanna Oznowicz

I read to escape...I write to help others escape...
--Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files ~ Howard Hopkins

The only way that your work will truly find an audience is if it is genuine. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

PRINCIPLES ARE LIKE THE LIGHTHOUSES. THEY STAND STILL. SO WE DON'T LOSE OUR WAY. ~ Kenan Crnkic

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere. ~ Carla H. Krueger

The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I ~ Austin Kleon

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service. ~ Jeremy Collier

Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best. ~ Stephen Richards

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank. ~ Nigel Hamilton

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars. ~ William Golding

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. ~ Carl Hiaasen

If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours. ~ Carole Jelen

Moments later he said, "There they go, there they go." He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them. ~ Carson McCullers

Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ... ~ Stephen Richards

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. ~ Stephen Richards

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself. ~ Mark Twain

Does it matter if an empty vessel breaks, hollow hath no hate. ~ Unkown Author

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born. ~ Cathryn Louis

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author
then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new. ~ Doris Lessing

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. ~ Sandra Chami Kassis

You're not done. Nor are you broken. You, baby girl, are an unfinished story. You can't quit and stop fighting because you don't know what the world has in store for you tomorrow. You can't say you're finished because you don't know the point of the book until it's all written. This book- the book that you write every day- is your life. You're still here, still fighting. So no, baby girl, you are not done. You're a working manuscript. You're the author. ~ Livia Jamerlan

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. ~ Henry Edward Manning

I'll write'em if you'll read'em ~ Robert Lee Thompson

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do
tell stories and entertain. ~ Michelle M. Pillow

Destiny is what is happening to you right now. ~ Stephen Richards

The industrialisation of England had quickened during Hardy's life and in the novel he places great importance on rural culture and the need of man to interact with, and understand the natural world, however indifferent it may be to human survival. The author does not sketch a portrait of an idyllic rural scene, but highlights and details the devastating consequences and brute force of the natural world. Hardy uses these disasters to underline the prominence of chance or luck in life, rather than benevolent design by a creator and how this might impact moral decisions. Impressionist art also influences Hardy's perception of reality and what knowledge each individual is capable of attaining in any situation. ~ Thomas Hardy

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree ... and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!) ~ Carl Sagan

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work. ~ Emanuel Cleaver

The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt. ~ David Pietrusza

The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult. ~ David Platt

Frederick Douglass called Republicans the 'Party of freedom and progress,' and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the Republicans in Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due process of law. The Democrats on the other hand were the Party of Jim Crow. It was Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners. It was the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but it was Democrats in the Senate who filibustered the bill. ~ Elbert Guillory

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. ~ Stephen King