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.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Francine Pascal

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

Graham Greene

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Michael Stern

So the next time you switch the light, run water or whatever, think of the people who risk their lives everyday so that we can do what we do everyday,

Jane Austen

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful.

Donna Pitre

We are still seeing people everyday who need some type of housing.

Joseph Badaracco

Within everyday ordinary people, if you look closely, you can find some extraordinary things.

Ben Smith

When I stand up in that (locker room) in front of 24 athletes, there aren't a lot of reassured faces looking up. They did a good job of keeping that out of their everyday psyche, but it's got to be present in people's minds. Even some of the people that you think were locks, they didn't think of it that way.

Albert Einstein

everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.........

Corey Haim

You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.

Simon Van Booy

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things