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.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Amos Lee

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

Clara Shih

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Waits

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

Taylor Swift

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right