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 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.

Barbara Pym

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

Barbara Pym

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

Anthony Edwards

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Steve McNair

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

Tamora Pierce

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Ray Allen

Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Mason Cooley

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Amos Lee

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

Clara Shih

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Rob Marshall

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Waits

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

Taylor Swift

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.