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.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Tracy

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane Jacobs

New ideas often need old buildings.

Jane D. Hull

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Anatole France

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

Raul Julia

Thank God for the theater.

Thomas Hearns

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

Shahrukh Khan

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

Max Azria

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Garth Brooks

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

Jim Butcher

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Ellen DeGeneres

All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour.

Huey Lewis

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.