#authors

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry

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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#good-books #truth #writers #bad

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten. ↗

— Roman Payne

#authors #brides #desire #funny #humor

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#damn #envy #led #never #read

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#finish #god #obligated #will

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#association #authors #canon #ethics #factor

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. ↗

— Anita Diament

#around #authors #book #books #centers

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#dangers #death #monarchs #ought #put

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

Our very existence refuses your laws and your science, your religions and your philosophies. ↗

— B.E. Scully

#horror-authors #vampire #religion