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

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

E. B. White

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

E. B. White

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

E. B. White

My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

E. B. White

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Christy Porter

We weren't giving up. We had gotten this far.

Trent Strickland

We showed a lot of heart. We seniors talked a lot about giving it all we had and leaving everything on the floor. We've thought all year that we were better than we have showed.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Doris Lessing

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Doris Lessing

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Aldo Leopold

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Aldous Huxley

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Aldous Huxley

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Aldous Huxley

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

Albert Einstein

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

Albert Einstein

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Albert Einstein

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.