#authors

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fearless #inspirational-authors #writers #inspirational

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#collaboration #inspirational #reading #writing #writing-quotes

For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗

— Kerry D. Brackett

#african-american-authors #inspirational #poetry #inspirational

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#diversity #freedom #internet #new #offers

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#contemporary #drink #many #more #than

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#authors #crawling #like #now #performance

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. ↗

— Anne Moody

#mississippi-authors #age

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#authors #continued #could #enduring #great