#authors

"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."

"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."

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

"Her words are her wings. She's flying."

"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."

"As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself."

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

"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."

"A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly."

"Love is written by the soul."

"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."

"Beauty is a heart with wings."

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

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

"One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within."

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

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."