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.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Donald Trump

I was never one who looked at success as bad. For me, success was always good. I loved it, and still do.

Amy Winehouse

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

Claudia Schiffer

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

Erica Durance

But I still had to tell myself, Keep looking up. I will tell you, he isnt Superman for nothing.

Richard K. Morgan

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Henry Rollins

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Nick McDonell

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.