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.

Rudy Vallee

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

Marco Beltrami

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

Joey Fatone

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Leonard Slatkin

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Placido Domingo

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Cory Doctorow

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Clive Owen

I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.

Adam Sandler

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.