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.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

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.

Augustus

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Simon Pegg

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Deng Xiaoping

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Dule Hill

I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.

Thomas Jefferson

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

George W. Bush

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

George W. Bush

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Freema Agyeman

I only unwind at facials and massages.

Gitesh Pandya

Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,

Walter Jon Williams

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.