Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Charles McClelland

The quality of play is much improved." ()

Paula Beall

We were just enthralled by the quality of the space that we could see through the storefront windows,

Richard Bach

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

David Bailey

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

William P. Young

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

Rose Bergquist

I haven't got to meet him in person yet. I would probably be a blubbering idiot if I did.

Kasey Kahne

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Johann Sebastian Bach

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Arabian Proverbs

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.