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.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Ben Mezrich

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

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

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.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

James Gray

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

Calvin Coolidge

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.

Clarice Lispector

But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Bob Dylan

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

Terry Trippler

You are seeing things happening you never saw before, ... are now starting to take a page out of the success of low-cost carriers. Forget market share. If a plane or route is not making money, 'we will pull it.'

Garrett Temple

We've helped the state a lot. When people watch our games, they forget for a while they're living in a trailer in Shreveport or Houston instead of their house in New Orleans. We are making people feel happy, at least for a moment, and nothing is more satisfying than that.

Jason Michaels

We had to forget about last night. Last night was last night.

Cindy Stein

This team has accomplished a lot. I don't think we should forget that, and you know, I think the main thing for us is to get ready for the NCAA tournament.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

Deepak Chopra

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

David Bowie

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Chris Burke

Big moments like this always go too fast,