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 Mertz

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

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.

Austin Mahone

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Demi Lovato

My all time favorite band is Paramore and she's basically one of the reasons I was inspired... umm, well Hayley Williams from Paramore was one of the basic reasons I wanted to go rock. I saw the band live and they're great together and they write incredible music and also I like a lot of older bands. I like Motley Crue a lot and who else, I've got a lot of favorite bands but those are pretty much the main ones.

Dan Auerbach

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

Anthony Jeselnik

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

Anne Sexton

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm drunk but truthful.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't get the whole getting drunk thing.

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Dean Koontz

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Lisa Dorfman

Either with expert advice or by evaluating your own personal needs.

Mark Twain

Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people.

Philip Sidney

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

John Wright

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

John Wooden

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

Mason Cooley

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Michael Jordan

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.