Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Rebecca West

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Russell Lynes

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Russell Banks

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Russell Banks

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Russell Baker

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Charles Richards

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Rob Zombie

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

William Gibson

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,

Sarah Rees Brennan

She'd always known he loved her, it had been the one certainty above all others that had never changed, but she had never said the words aloud and she had never meant them quite this way before. She had said it to him, and she hardly knew what she had meant. They were terrifying words, words to encompass a world.

Sarah Addison Allen

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

Sara Bareilles

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Wesley Clark

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Ty Segall

The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

William Goldman

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

Wilford Brimley

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Wavy Gravy

we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.