Author Quote by Richard Wright
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book […]
Author Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author Quote by Jane Yolen
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. -Jane Yolen
Author Quote by Ray Bradbury
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! -Ray Bradbury
Author Quote by Anne McCaffrey
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. -Anne McCaffrey
Author Quote by Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. -Oscar Wilde
Author Quote by Robert Benchley
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn?t give it up because by that time I was too famous. -Robert Benchley
Author Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -Ursula K. Le Guin
Author Quote by Ayn Rand
Words are a lens to focus one?s mind. -Ayn Rand
Author Quote by Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest. -Emily Dickinson