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.

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.

Arthur Miller

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jan Morris

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Benjamin Disraeli

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Donald Davis

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Don DeLillo

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Donatella Versace

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Douglas Wilson

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Roger Stone

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

J. Paul Getty

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

John Bolton

I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't solve a problem if you deny that it exists or if you wish it away.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.