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 Howell

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Brian Tracy

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Charles Churchill

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Claire Messud

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

James Browning

We lost a genius and we lost my brother, ... You've lost a cornerstone of good, and that hurts real bad.

Albert Einstein

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Dan Brown

genius accepts genius unconditionally

Steve Martin

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.