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 Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augustus

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Brit Hume

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Lucinda Williams

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

Melissa Benoist

I love female singer-songwriters!

Jessie Ware

There are so many great singers out there.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Mike Figgis

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.