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

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Auguste Comte

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

Brad Pitt

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Ricky Gervais

Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.

Charles Spurgeon

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Elbert Hubbard

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Elbert Hubbard

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

Archie Panjabi

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Benito Mussolini

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Carl Zimmer

Everybody can digest milk when they're little.

Alan Furst

I read very little contemporary anything.

Alanna Ubach

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

bell hooks

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

Bar Refaeli

I don't know who Little Richard is.

Billy Collins

I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.