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.

Janeane Garofalo

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Jamie Kennedy

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

Aziz Ansari

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

Jamie Foxx

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

Carrot Top

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

Brad Williams

I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets."

Aubrey Plaza

Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

Adam Sandler

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

Drew Carey

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

Ayelet Zurer

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Catherine McCormack

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Jane Krakowski

When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.

Bela Lugosi

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Dan Stevens

I always wanted to be an actor.

Clark Gable

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

Dennis Haysbert

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.

Dominic Monaghan

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Daniel Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'