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

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Brett Ratner

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Brenda Lee

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

Jane Goodall

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

Alan Lightman

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Arianna Huffington

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Daniel Handler

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

Jack Whitaker

People forget that (Facenda) was a great news man, ... They just think of him as the voice of NFL Films. John was a great fan. We had a great set up for 12 years.

Freddie Shepherd

Sometimes people can look at the negatives too much. Yes, we have injuries but people shouldn't forget that we still have a lot of quality players and experienced internationals available.

James Gray

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

Calvin Coolidge

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.

Clarice Lispector

But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Bob Dylan

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

Terry Trippler

You are seeing things happening you never saw before, ... are now starting to take a page out of the success of low-cost carriers. Forget market share. If a plane or route is not making money, 'we will pull it.'

John Grahame

We want to forget about X's and O's and just play hard and get an intensity level. If we get that as high as we can, good things will come from there.