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.

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Brian Jacques

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Al Capone

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

John Cross

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,

Brigham Young

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

Arthur Miller

A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre

H. Hunt

This is, for us, kind of an opening salvo. We want them to know we are as mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Albert Einstein

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

John Wayne

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

Henny Youngman

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?

C. S. Lewis

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Gerard Way

I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.