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.

Eike Batista

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

Amy Tan

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

Steve Guttenberg

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

Steven Pressfield

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

Steven Pressfield

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

Henry David Thoreau

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Neal Shusterman

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.