Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. S. Lewis

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Catullus

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Catie Curtis

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Cecelia Ahern

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Chris Robinson

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

C. S. Lewis

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Petrarch

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Petrarch

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

Oscar Levant

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Mark Cuban

There was one person, or probably two people, that wrote reviews saying this movie should not be made,

Ian Mcewan

I often don't read reviews.

Chris Hardwick

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

Faith Prince

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

Candice Bergen

I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to work with those two guys.

Michael Chabon

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.