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.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Brian Tracy

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Brad Pitt

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Jan Morris

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

Caprice Bourret

Men tend to be selfish.

Drew Cassidy

Avalon will provide first class customer service, as every Avalon member, employer or producer will be connected to a live voice at all times, and not be subjected to an automatic telephonic prompt system. By keeping people connected, Avalon answers questions quickly and rectifies problems the first time, creating a more efficient and consumer friendly experience.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.

Clarice Lispector

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

Diane Sawyer

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

Eliezer Yudkowsky

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

Elie Wiesel

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Ben Horowitz

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Dennis Miller

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is,

Charles Schumer

You have to wait and see how Judge Roberts answers questions.