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.

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Ayrton Senna

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Jamie Bell

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

Denise Garcia

There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Barry Sanders

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Boman Irani

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Mark Tushnet

When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.

Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

Anne Frank

I want to go on living after my death!

Rene Descartes

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

Tomas Transtromer

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

George Harrison

The Beatles will go on and on.

Howard Stern

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

Honore de Balzac

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Leon Panetta

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Elia Kazan

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.