Everything I write has an unsettling edge.

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.

Chris Salamone donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to education and leadership development as Chairman of the LeadAmerica Foundation. With his passion in studying and singing opera, he is trained in the martial arts of...

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

Let you light shine from the inside out.

Don’t Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!

You know you’re a writer when the words don’t stop!

Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well...

There’s something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn’t...

It’s a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!

If you can’t be an author, be a book

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting...

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

You’re reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer’s study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections...

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to...

What an author doesn’t know could fill a book.

The only way that your work will truly find an audience is if it is genuine.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . ....

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

I write books, bitch!

Ignorance isn’t a sword. It’s a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.

As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college dropout education, Carl...

I don’t want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his ‘utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig...

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn’t lack for creativity.

Someone described a writer’s world as tormented, and I had to laugh. A tormented writer? I personally wouldn’t have put those two words together. Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree...

Stand tall and face YOUR truth. Speak boldly and be confident in what you say. Don’t just dream, but take the steps to get where you want to be. Stay motivated, determined, and focused because...

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons,...

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

I pity the people who don’t like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

Starting the Day— Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.

Reading is a lot like fine dining… Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always...

Here is the world. Don’t be afraid for wonderful and terrible things will happen. Simply remember to breath.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

The best thing about being a writer is that ‘work’ is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.