Famous Quotes & Sayings

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)?

Delta Goodrem

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

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

E. B. White

In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

E. B. White

I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.

E. B. White

Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle." "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle-it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Dr. Dorian.

E. B. White

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

E. B. White

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Emraan Hashmi

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I broke things to get attention.

Alice Rivlin

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Alice Sebold

The living deserve attention, too

Alice Hoffman

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Anne Lamott

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Ann Voskamp

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

Annie Lennox

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

Clay Shirky

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes from 'preserve the current institutions' to 'do whatever works.' And what works today isn't the same as what used to work.

Ronald Reagan

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

Roman Jakobson

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Sally Kirkland

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

Sally Field

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Sally Field

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

Susan Rice

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

Studs Terkel

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

Stonewall Jackson

My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!