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.

Alexander Pope

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Alice Cooper

Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

Rick Mercer

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

Susanna Kaysen

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

Sophocles

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

John Milton

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

May Sinclair

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

Kim Alexander

She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.

Florence Nightingale

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.