Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Rebecca West

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Russell Lynes

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Russell Banks

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Russell Banks

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Roger Babson

The God we worship writes his name upon our faces.

Ken Hill

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Mike Trapasso

We are fortunate to have the return trip to Louisiana. It's not ideal, but it's better to play in sunny, dry weather rather than playing on the sponge we have.

Mitch Hedberg

I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology.

Sara Gruen

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

Robert Pattinson

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

Yann Martel

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

Mike Shields

It's pretty much over, and it should be dry for the rest of the weekend.

Larry Brown

It looks pretty dry for the next week.

Cassandra Clare

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Joe Mullen

They're a team that is looking to win some games. They've got to be hungry (in their situation).

Yolanda Griffith

Once you win one, you're hungry to win another one. So we'll be back next year.

Pam Wilkins

First of all, we have a lot of athletes. You win one year, and they're hungry to win again.

Dwayne Johnson

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

Chris Fitz

We anticipated this. Voters are really hungry to have it on the ballot.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Did you get hungry and eat my colleagues?

Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.