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.

Drew Cassidy

Avalon will provide first class customer service, as every Avalon member, employer or producer will be connected to a live voice at all times, and not be subjected to an automatic telephonic prompt system. By keeping people connected, Avalon answers questions quickly and rectifies problems the first time, creating a more efficient and consumer friendly experience.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.

Clarice Lispector

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

Diane Sawyer

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

Eliezer Yudkowsky

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

Elie Wiesel

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Ben Horowitz

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Dennis Miller

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is,

Michael Cole

We think that there should be one investigation that answers all of the questions.

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.