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

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

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.

Rob Marshall

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

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.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Emile Cioran

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Jeff Greene

I'm always signing blank deeds. That's how an escrow company works.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

David Keene

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Oleh Rybachuk

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.