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.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Brian Tracy

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Busy Philipps

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Sally Field

I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There would be times when I would be crying for hours and hours and hours, but mostly they were in and out of the picture. There were times to go hide and times to come out and play.

Rodney Mullen

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

Mitchel Musso

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

Ken Daneyko

I've never seen my dad cry in 41 years. And he had tears in his eyes.

Kristine Lilly

There is crying in soccer. But whether you win or lose, the sun is still going to come up the next day and you're still going to be able to play soccer.

Shay Doron

Crystal obviously is our No. 1 option. Everything goes through her. She spreads the game, especially for the guards and the other post players because she draws so much attention.

Jack Kilby

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.

Mike Street

While this is a far cry from our usual service levels, it is a welcome move for our long-haul customers.

Solomon Ortiz

You can't cry over spilled milk. ... You need to regroup, and now we'll do what we can in my committee,