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.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jami Attenberg

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Jami Attenberg

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Austin Mahone

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Dale Carnegie

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Daniel Berrigan

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

Damien Rice

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again,

Damien Hirst

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

DeShaun Foster

We're peaking at the right time. That's what we're trying to do. Hopefully, everything is going to work out for us.

Donald Glover

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

Donald Glover

I try and go to as many places as possible. It's really cool that I even get to see different places.