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.

Walter Isaacson

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Yann Martel

Most of us get our history through story.

Patricia Cox

I just want to get it straight, ... There are so many stories out there.

Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Rodrique Wright

Everyone is talking about USC making history. But (if) we win Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Rod Wright

Everyone is talking about this as USC making history. But if we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there're going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Nic Pizzolatto

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.