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.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Richard Lobb

The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Anne Spencer

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

David Lynch

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Tom Stoppard

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Jay Sekulow

The Supreme Court got it right in determining that the appeals court went too far by declaring the parental notification law in New Hampshire unconstitutional. Parents have a critical role to play in the health and well being of their children, especially when considering an abortion.

James Brosnahan

We are going to keep doing it until the equity of it appeals to a president of the United States.

Edy Ganem

I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

Jim Cullinan

There's nothing in the court of appeals decision or the original decision that supports the contention that Microsoft overcharged consumers. We believe that there is no validity to these suggestions. And we believe so far that we have been successful in many of the private class-action lawsuits.

Dan Vado

The deal with the Disney comics is to do stories and comics in a style that appeals to an older audience than is normally associated with a Disney brand.

Neal Levine

We've been working on this initiative now going on five years. We crafted it in a way we think appeals to all Nevadans.

Ellie Goulding

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

Richard Gray

If it were only the federal government's lawsuit, it would be clear that the Appeals Court loses jurisdiction, ... The existence of the state suit makes it significantly less clear. But if the Supreme Court wants both suits, there is little doubt in my mind that it could take both of them.

John Oliver

Higgins is pompous, a braggart, egocentric. He makes a clear statement at the beginning that he stands alone, he's independent, he doesn't need anybody. What he doesn't count on is how attached he is going to be to her (Doolittle). That's what appeals to the audience seeing this guy who is a pompous ass really humiliate himself.