#authors

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which. ↗

— Elizabeth Spencer

#happiness #love #mississippi-authors #love

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books. ↗

— Augusta Scattergood

#civil-rights-movement #happiness #libraries #mississippi-authors #love

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 over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#inspirational-quotes #reading #reading-books #richelle #richelle-goodrich

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#austen #authors #jane #jane austen #other

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#completely #different #different levels #enjoy #levels

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. ↗

— Eveli Acosta

#indie-author #indie-writing #writers #writers-life #writers-on-writing

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

— Frederick Forsyth

#diversity #freedom #internet #new #offers

Cliché: "The MBA changed my life." What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program. ↗

— Sameer Kamat

#education #indian-author #indian-authors #management #mba