All Quotes By Tag: Author
“An inspirational writer’s life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.”
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“Well, Betsy,” he said, “your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith’s trunk for a desk. That’s fine. You need a desk. I’ve often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can’t understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. “”Bob!” said Mrs. Ray. “You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry.””Cry, eh?” said Mr. Ray, grinning. “In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you’re going to be a writer.”Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed.”But if you’re going to be a writer,” he went on, “you’ve got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics.”
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“A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run”
“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”
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“Life’s adventures make great reading!”
“Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She was everything I wanted to be; strong, smart, witty, and above all else, she didn’t care what other people thought about her. But after a while, she started to take on a personality of her own, and I was suddenly more interested in her story than I was in mine.”
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“I FOUND MYSELF LIVING FOR THE ONES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES”
“Writing is a lifelong commitment that taxes every scribble, and only reimburses at the grave. A.W. RyleighEvery daydream, every moment, every thought in preoccupation….write it.A.W. Ryleigh”
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“I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.”
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“The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.They all hearThe speaking of the Tree.They hear the first and last of every TreeSpeak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.Plant yourself beside the River.”
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“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”
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“The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.”
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“When you write, you are telling a story…to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself…over and over again.”
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“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”
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