For every minute that a book entertains you, the author of that book invested several minutes of their lives. Please show your appreciation by taking a minute out of your life to leave us a...

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...

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

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What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it...

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive...

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to...

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn’t for our longing for these things, I doubt...

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as “the expert” in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard,...

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill...

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I think a great many people would enjoy doing what I did, and that is why they enjoy books and movies (and even TV shows these days) that feature Torture and Dismemberment, etc., etc., etc.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form –...

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to...

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one’s brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is the surge and urgency of season. In being born, we have...

I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By...

The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer’s [review of Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the...

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

It’s a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of...

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing...

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others...

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

Failing to writer everyday doesn’t mean that you’ve given up, though a chapter a day – keeps writers block away!

An idiot child screaming in a hospital.” (on George Bernard Shaw)

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It’s when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about.

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes…put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

Getting a spark of inspiration to write is the best feeling in the world, no matter what time it is…I get a feeling on the inside that urges me to get up from whatever I...

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.