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.

Caroline Lawrence

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Aubrey McClendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

James Wan

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Candy Crowley

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

Carol Alt

Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!

Charles Kennedy

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Andrew Solomon

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Anna Chlumsky

I was an international studies major.

Thomas Browne

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

Thomas Jefferson

Health is value greater than studying.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

Stella Adler

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Sherilyn Fenn

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

Theodore Sturgeon

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Theodore Bikel

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?