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.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

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)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Charles Churchill

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Charles Colson

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Charles Darwin

People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

Jane Austen

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Douglas Horton

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Albert Pike

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

Alexander Pope

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Alexander Pope

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Alexander Pope

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Ringo Starr

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Tim Burton

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Sandra Cisneros

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

Jonathan Tropper

Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

John Cleese

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

Napoleon Hill

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!