Inspirational Words of Wisdom

Inspirational Authors

Inspirational authors who have all shared their words of wisdom in written forms. Plus we offer a collection of quotes about authors. Enjoy the inspirational sites, many of the sites have articles, excerpts, and biographies. We hope you find these resources helpful.
Lorraine Kember: Author and Inspirational/Motivational Speaker - Lorraine is the Author of ‘Lean on Me’ Cancer through a Carer’s Eyes, an inspirational true story of her husband’s courageous battle with terminal cancer and of her ‘emotional’ journey as she cares for him and improves the ‘quality’ of his life. Uniquely combining insight and discussion into the methods she used to control her husband’s pain along with portrayal of her emotional journey through inclusion of diary excerpts and poems she penned along the way; this inspirational book provides a valuable guide to cancer pain management as well as a rare insight into ‘anticipatory grief’ and the roller coaster of emotions experienced by those dealing with terminal illness. Highly recommended by the Cancer Council, this moving book is a must read for Carer’s and for anyone whose life has been touched by cancer of any kind. http://www.cancerthroughacarerseyes.jkwh.com

"Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors."
- Benjamin Franklin

Diane Brandon, Personal Path Intuitive/Spiritual Counselor, Corporate Consultant, Personal Facilitator, Speaker, and Writer— Author of Invisible Blueprints: Intuitive Insights for Fulfillment in Life - Diane Brandon offers Intuitive Counseling, focusing on Personal and Spiritual Growth and the Deeper Meaning of Events. Private Consultations Available, including by Phone. Dream Interpretation. Relationship, Career, and Life Path Issues, as well as Children, Finances, and Passed-On Loved Ones. Workshops and Presentations. Contains Text of Published Articles. http://www.dianebrandon.com

"Writing a book I have found to be like building a house.
A man forms a plan, and collects materials."
James Boswell

Robert & Christine Gerzon - Conscious & Creative Living - nationally-known authors, speakers, counselors and coaches, offer personal growth, spirituality and relationship resources. http://www.gerzon.com/index.html

"Who learns most from a good book is the author."
José Bergamín

Point of Life.com - a journey to enlighten your mind, body, soul, wealth, and happiness. Michael's New Book - "Tbe Joys of Live Alchemy" now available. http://www.pointoflife.com

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea,
though many there be who have tried it."
Herman Melville

Karin Janin.com - Karin Janin, author of Magic of Intention AND Creative Life Coaching. Newsletter, articles and more! http://www.karinjanin.com

"How many authors are there among writers?
Author means originator."
Friedrich Von Schlegel

Enjoy more words of wisdom in these Quotes about Authors:

"Certain books seem to have been written not for the purpose that we learn something from them but that we know that the author was a knowledgeable person."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."
Joseph Addison

"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers, but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."
Thomas Higginson

"Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors."
Pablo Picasso

"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."
Harry Fosdick

"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes

"An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago."
Samuel Smiles

"Every production must resemble its author."
Miguel de Cervantes

"Making a book is a craft, as is making a clock; it takes more than wit to become an author."
Jean de La Bruyere

"When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man."
Blaise Pascal

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
Winston Churchill

"Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

"The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new."
William Makepeace Thackeray

"When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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