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.

Al Aqsa

This is taste of even more to come,

Bon Scott

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

Aristophanes

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Edvard Grieg

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Coolio

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

E. M. Forster

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.