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.

Lee Scott

That's when they become the experts and can help teach the other kids. It's the highlight of my day.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Albert Einstein

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Stephen Cambone

The experts have been through it, and they have not found another plausible use for it.

Susan Sontag

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Every expert was once a beginner.

Susan Collins

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

Theo de Raadt

Only failure makes us experts.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Deepak Chopra

To love a person is to love their universe.

Anthony de Mello

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

Chrissy Teigen

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Felix Baumgartner

I'm more a competitive person.

Christopher Atkins

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Jhene Aiko

I just like being a regular person.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.