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.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jami Attenberg

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Jami Attenberg

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Austin Mahone

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

John Adams

There's just a real style to these boats.

Hao Fang

We just wanted to keep the style of the magazine.

Douglas Adams

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

E. B. White

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

E. B. White

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Adam Savage

Isn't television glamourous?

Thomas de Quincey

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Timbaland

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Brendon Burchard

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Deana Carter

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Lindsey Hunter

At this point, we don't even care. We know what we've got to do, and we know what we need to do -- and that's get the title back. That's our focus, our goal. All the other stuff, hey, people can say what they want to say or not. They'll put us on the prime-time or whatever. It doesn't matter to us. We just want the title back.

Amy Pascal

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

Ama Ata Aidoo

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

Aleksandar Hemon

The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

Albert Einstein

For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.