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

I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.

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.

Jane Goodall

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

Ron Kaufman

What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?

Tom Hardy

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

Sue Monk Kidd

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

Jeremy Renner

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Charlie Munger

We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

Daisaku Ikeda

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Rogers Johns

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Landon Donovan

The good thing is it's over and it's not like that's going to have ramifications on our season. If anything it will help us. You don't play in games of that intensity and atmosphere but a couple of times a year.

Steve Gregory

The atmosphere that it brings, I really like it a lot,

Jay Taylor

It was a dinner cooked in a pressure cooker. What we need is something that comes out of a crock pot. We need something that is well thought out, well planned and well executed, and in the atmosphere we are in today on this subject, we're not going to get that kind of situation.

Natan Sharansky

It will be very difficult to have such serious discussions or fruitful discussions with the atmosphere of elections because, of course, those decisions will become part of the political issues for the electoral debate,

Lucian Freud

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Asghar Farhadi

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

John Hench

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.