Tag Archive | Author Quotes
Eddie Cantor-Slow down and enjoy life.
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” -Eddie Cantor (September 21, 1892-October 10, 1964) During research for a book I’m writing, I ran across details of a man I…
Love is an Anesthetic. My #BeWoW post.
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
Yes, this is true. Sometimes you don’t want to go on, go forward. Pain can be an all consuming beast. It can control you. And it will at times. The important part is to know all of that and not get discouraged, and if you’re very lucky, you have that anesthetic…
Author Quotes: George Orwell
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
The Quotable George Orwell Today would have been George Orwell’s 102nd birthday. In celebration, Readers+Writers Journal has assembled some of the journalist, essayist and novelist’s best and most memorable quotes. Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair, in India, where is father was a British official. Despite the circumstances of his birth and…
Five Great Quotes by Stan “The Man” Lee.
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
How would you like to write books every month that sold hundreds of thousands every time? Meet Stan Lee. Yes, some of you are turning your noses up at comicbooks. Yes, I spelled it comicbooks because Stan Lee says so. Because of Marvel comics I learned how to…
Author Quotes – Margaret Atwood
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
Margaret Atwood is a poet, essayist, novelist and Canadian national treasurer. She is also an inventor who holds several patents for a device that allows for remote writing, called the LongPen. Atwood has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 5 times and won once, in 2000. She is…
Author Quotes – James Baldwin
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet who frequently explored themes of racial and class divisions in American society. In works like Notes of a Native Son, The Devil Finds Work, and The Fire Next Time, Baldwin critiqued the mores of mid-twentieth century…
Author Quotes – Stephen King
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
Stephen King is best known as a writer of horror and supernatural fantasy whose books have sold over 300 million copies. He is also a political activist, advocate for other writers and free speech and the author of On Writing, considered among the best modern memoirs/guides on the writing life…
Author Quotes – JRR Tolkien
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
Famous Author Quotes – J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892-1973 Author, scholar and counter-culture icon, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote some of the most seminal and beloved fantasy novels in the English language, most notably The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, which was published after his death. The Times ranked Tolkien…
Farewells – Writers We Lost in 2014
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
2014 Saw the loss of several Nobel, Booker Prize and Pulitzer winners, as well as the passing of some of the most beloved authors in the English language. Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and activist whose works took on racially-charged themes, especially apartheid in her home…
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