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.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

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

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Rebecca Skloot

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

Kiana Tom

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

David Catalfamo

Doctors have indicated that the surgery was performed as expected without incident.

Andrew Weil

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Christopher Moore

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Albert Schweitzer

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Thomas Sowell

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

Tom Riley

The thing about Doctor Who is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location,

Dick Vermeil

Normally, when you win a football game and you really feel good about it flying home, you look at tapes and it's not quite as good as you thought it was,

Grant Fairley

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

Tobin Gorey

There's still money flying into the commodities markets in general. I think the market is still bullish.

Debbie Stabenow

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Christopher Walken

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

D. J. MacHale

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

Amelia Earhart

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.