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 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.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Oliver Goldsmith

The naked every day he clad, / When he put on his clothes.

Carine Roitfeld

There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!

Jennifer Lawrence

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

Auberon Waugh

Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.

Don DeLillo

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

Christy Turlington

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

Marianne Moore

All are / naked, none is safe.

J. C. Ryle

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

Kenneth Cole

Underneath it allYou're naked,

Yotam Ottolenghi

The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.