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.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Artur Schnabel

Practice in tranquility.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Brene Brown

One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

Bruce Lee

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Amos Lee

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

Clara Shih

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Waits

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

Taylor Swift

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right