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.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

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.

Robert Bly

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Patti LaBelle

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Fede Alvarez

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Aristotle

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Randy Hultgren

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

Simone de Beauvoir

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Tim Gunn

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

Steve Nash

I know what I can do and what I'm able to accomplish.

Steve Martin

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.