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.

Adlai Stevenson

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

Donald Davis

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Anthony Edwards

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

D. B. Sweeney

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Robert Anton Wilson

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

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.

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.

Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.