Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danielle Steel

I always try to write about believable people.

Danielle Steel

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Daniel Negreanu

I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online.

Daniel Okrent

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

Dan O'Brien

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Dan Millman

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

William Shakespeare

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

William Shakespeare

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

Joseph Joubert

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

Alexis Bledel

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

Alexei Sayle

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Alexei Sayle

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

Alexei Sayle

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Jane Hirshfield

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

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.

Jane Hirshfield

I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.

Jane Campion

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

Jane Goodall

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

Jane Fonda

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

Jane Fonda

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

Jana Kramer

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

Jan Morris

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Jan Karon

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Jan Karon

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I write music. I'm in a band.

Jamie Foxx

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

James Vincent McMorrow

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

James Wan

Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.

James Van Allen

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

James Whistler

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Juvenal

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

Juvenal

It is difficult not to write satire.

Juvenal

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.