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.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

Brett Ratner

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

Brandon Sanderson

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Brandon Sanderson

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Antoinette Perry

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Anita Diament

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Suzanne Collins

Some walks you have to take alone.

Teresa Palmer

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

Michael Stipe

Anybody that walks can sing..

James Bryant Conant

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot walk alone.