Quotes on “authors”

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.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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.