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.

Jamie Farr

I never got any kind of mail regarding whatever I did on the show.

Meg Ryan

All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings

Jill Sobule

I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!

Tammy Cox

I would send him the burritos by mail but I can't find a way to do it and keep them fresh.

Bart Simpson

I will not send lard through the mail

Jeffrey Koplan

If there is a risk from cross-contaminated mail, it is very low, ... the mail is, by and large, very safe.

Scarlett Pomers

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

Lil' Kim

My fan mail is what keeps me going.

Chris Alexander

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Jill Thomas

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

Dave McKean

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.