Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Egan

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

Harold Ramis

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're doing all your preparation: You're already visualizing everything, you're imagining how the lines are going to be read, you see the blocking in your head, and you know the rhythm and the pacing.

Hugh Jackman

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

Rick Tocchet

I would take a 3-0 lead every night. We didn't quit. Some guys think it's easy. It's hard to win. It's uncomfortable to win. I thought we were into it early and let Colorado off the hook. That's where your leadership takes over and you don't let it happen. In the end somebody has to go to the net. Somebody has to block a shot.

John Barnes

He's a very smart, very bright kid, so we knew he could quarterback the defense, ... We felt he could run pretty darn well, and if he would hit somebody, which we thought he would because we watched him block as a fullback, that he could pick it up pretty fast. And the rest is history.

Rob Thurman

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

Richard Powers

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Carmona

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Valerie Bertinelli

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Donna Tartt

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Donna Tartt

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

Donna Tartt

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donald Hall

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Paul Richards

Everyday spending decisions, especially credit-based ones, will do far more harm to our financial future than any investment decision you will likely ever make.

Larry Smith

As to any decision it's premature at this point. I'll just take it one day at a time.

Jim Boyce

As I said at tonight's meeting, no final decision has been made.

Kevin Chalmers

At this point, Mr. Emerson is irrelevant. It's about electoral fraud. It's about doing the right thing for the people who live in this riding who did not have the decision that they made respected.

Michael Sheehan

At this point, a decision has not been made. We're still watching their recovery efforts, ... if -- and that's a big if -- their infrastructure is up to it.

Mike Hargrove

Did he have no-hit stuff? Yeah, I think so. I was sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitches to let him go for a no-hitter. He's young and big and strong, and he had only 83 going into the seventh. ... I'd have let him go 130 pitches. I'd like to have had that decision to make.