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.

Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Alexander Pope

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Dean Martin

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

Andre Gide

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Erin Heatherton

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Kevin Keegan

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Douglas Adams

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.