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.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Tila Tequila

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

Steven Morrissey

Finally, I can get on with someone

Raf Simons

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

Tom DeLonge

All I can say is hold on, and prepare ...

Theodore Robinson

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

LeBron James

If I could clone myself, we’d be all right. But I can’t.

John Tavares

I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!

Peter Benchley

I dive as much as I can.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?