60 Author Quotes to Learn about Writing, Passion, Life, and More!

Famous Author Quotes

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For a starter, Tripboba is bringing famous author quotes by people you may know. Let’s see them below:

• “We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.” — Brad Meltzer

• "Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." — Stephen Chbosky

• "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." — John Steinbeck

• “Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind... I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.” ― Ilona Andrews

• "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." — J.K. Rowling

• “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” ― Charles Darwin

• "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." — Ray Bradbury

• "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." — Maya Angelou

• “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde

• “Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.” ― Anna White

• "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." — Dr. Seuss

• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein

• “These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light — the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.” ― David Foster Wallace

• "Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose." — C.S. Lewis

• "Monsters are real, ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." — Stephen King

Quotes from Author

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One of the best ways to cope with bad days is by reading inspirational author quotes about life and other inspiring things. That’s why we’re here to share more author quotes that are displayed in the following list:

• "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." — Chuck Palahniuk

• "We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." — Ernest Hemingway

• "Monsters are real, ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." — Stephen King

• “We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.” — Brad Meltzer

• "It hurt because it mattered." — John Green

• "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." — Herman Hesse

• "I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain." — Sylvia Plath

• "Life's not fair; why should I be?" — Margaret Atwood

• "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." — Henry David Thoreau

• "Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight." — Stephen King

• "We rise by lifting others." — Robert Ingersoll

• "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." — Maya Angelou

• "Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet." — Jeanette Walls

• “Life is a journey, not a destination.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival." — Audre Lorde

Quotes by Author

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Believe it or not, even when the story is fiction, writers often find their inspiration from experiences they've been through, which means that the bad times you've been through, have been through by these authors too – so, you’re not alone!

It's motivating when you read a quote about how someone you admire overcame their own difficulties.

Let’s see Tripboba’s version of author quotes for you to read:

• "I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival." —Audre Lorde

• "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong. Does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost." — J.R.R. Tolkien

• "There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion." — Edgar Allen Poe

• "The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." — John Muir

• "As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." — Rumi 

• "It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still love it." — Oscar Wilde

• "To thine own self be true." — William Shakespeare

• "Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them." — Ayn Rand

• "Straight roads do not make skillful drivers." — Paula Coelho

• “And in the end, we were all just humans... drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "To avoid criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." —Aristotle

• "Trust our heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards." — E.E. Cummings

• "When you can't change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

• "Have faith, have faith. When you have nothing else have faith." — Francine Rivers

• "Rock solid became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." — J.K. Rowling

Author Quotes About Writing

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When you are a writer, you want to learn about writing from as many sources as you can. This way, you get to know more and more from the people you have the same profession with.

Here, you will read more about author quotes about writing that you can learn and take inspiration from:

• "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." — Madeleine L'Engle

• "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." — Stephen King

• "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." — Anaïs Nin

• "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." — Mark Twain

• "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." — Toni Morrison

• "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

• "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." — Benjamin Franklin

• "You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." — Saul Bellow

• "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." — Robert Frost

• "Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." — William Faulkner

• "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." — Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

• "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced." — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

• "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." — Henry David Thoreau

• "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." — Anne Frank

• "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." — Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades