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.

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.

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.

Augusten Burroughs

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Alec Baldwin

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Anne Sexton

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Michael McGuire

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Angela Lansbury

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Brian Mullan

I was praying for rain. Whenever it's wet it favors the offense. And when you need to score goals that's what you want.

Fareed Zakaria

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Troy Vincent

Life favors those who are prepared

Tullian Tchividjian

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

Tyson Slocum

It shouldn't be a place where political favors are granted.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.