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.

David Askew

The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that.

P. J. Harvey

Technology products are driving our sales. The really hot products at the moment are the digital cameras and MP3 players. We stock every new technology product that comes out and they are really belting out the door.

Richard Gardner

These applications are going to get cheaper and cheaper and I really do see a day when we're all going to be creating our own home videos and editing these videos on a PC. About one in seven cameras sold today is digital.

Robert Adams

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

Steve Coleman

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

Steve Coleman

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

Steven Spielberg

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

Tim Curry

I moved to L.A. because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

Stanley Kubrick

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.