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.

Jami Attenberg

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Jami Attenberg

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

bell hooks

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

Barry White

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

Czeslaw Milosz

Language is the only homeland.

Soundarya

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

Silvio Berlusconi

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

Mason Cooley

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

Patricia Ryan

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

Oscar Wilde

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

Shlomo Avineri

Sharon, ... has learned the language of the possible.

Sarah Lael

For us, being married to each other is the most valuable thing in the world. It's the only language people understand.

Orlando Bloom

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.