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.

James Tate

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Doug Liman

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

Steve Martin

Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

Mort Sahl

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

Isabel Allende

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

Joseph Cook

We took it out in the editing process,

Dean Acosta

I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information.

Joanne Scheer

You know what editing can do. The editing on that show can be so cruel.

Author unknown

Relax. Nothing is under control.

Nick Fruendt

We just had to relax and play our game.

Douglas Adams

Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

Corbin Bleu

If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.

Dogen

To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.

Robert Bly

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

Simone Elkeles

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

Rollo May

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Relax, she’s not really converting. (Acheron) Look at her! She’s not exactly baking cookies! (Xypher)