Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Robert Creeley

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Cormier

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Robert Collier

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

Rob Thurman

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.

Rob Zombie

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

Rob Chapman

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

Rob Halford

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

Jane Austen

Success supposes endeavour.

Horace

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

Martin Scorsese

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Julian Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Lev Grossman

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Oliver North

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Marco Arment

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.