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.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Brandon Sanderson

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Aravind Adiga

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

Augustus

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Art Buchwald

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Ayn Rand

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Brad Pitt

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

Stanley Tucci

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

Paul Weller

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

Kevin Spacey

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

James Belushi

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Kate Braverman

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Mary McDonnell

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Taylor Swift

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.