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

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Ayn Rand

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Brian Tracy

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

Jane Austen

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Anton Chekhov

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

Blaise Pascal

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…

Barry Levinson

There's no downside to having too much experience.

Courteney Cox

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.

Duncan Sheik

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Deepak Chopra

To love a person is to love their universe.

Anthony de Mello

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

Chrissy Teigen

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Felix Baumgartner

I'm more a competitive person.

Jhene Aiko

I just like being a regular person.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.