#authors

"No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out."

"When I want to read a novel, I write one."

"Love is enough."

"It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required."

"Beauty is a heart with wings."

"Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one."

"Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss."

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell"

"I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."

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

"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."

"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."

". . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them."

"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"

"Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Be the energy you want others to absorb."

"Love is alive when there's music in your heart."