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.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

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

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Corey Koskie

It was a long time. It feels good to be back here.

Dontez Sanders

This is how we do it in the Big Ten. We wanted to play physical and it feels good. It is great to have a 10-win season.

Michael Strahan

That's good that he feels that way. He should feel that way. I sure he wasn't happy with the way he left the Giants, just as I'm sure I wouldn't be if it were me.

Daniel Fried

Aliyev wants to have good relations with the United States. He feels that is in his own interest, ... He does seem to be somewhat responsive.

Laurie Graham

As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Kenneth Branagh

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

Emma Thomas

The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Jandy Nelson

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Tila Tequila

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

Steven Morrissey

Finally, I can get on with someone

Raf Simons

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

Tom DeLonge

All I can say is hold on, and prepare ...

Theodore Robinson

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

LeBron James

If I could clone myself, we’d be all right. But I can’t.

John Tavares

I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!

Peter Benchley

I dive as much as I can.