Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew O'Hagan

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

David A. Adler

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

Bruce Wilkinson

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

Bernardo Bertolucci

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Bill Veeck

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Man Ray

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Carson McCullers

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Bruce Lee

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

Guy Finley

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Benmont Tench

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

Christina Baker Kline

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

William Gibson

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

William Empson

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

Tony Gwynn

Harold is the Pied Piper of Little League baseball,

Tom Stoppard

As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,

Bob Storman

This is turning into a crusade. You're seeing the grass-roots movement that got Harold Washington elected. ... The numbers are going to go up. You're going to have more troops on the street.

Rachel Joyce

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

Charles Glover Barkla

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

Andrew Strauss

We have learnt what it takes to win a series in India.

Natalie Cole

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Winston Smith

We've learnt that being first is not necessarily best.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

Sarah Snook

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

Mary Quant

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

Prince Harry

Looking back on it now and at the time as well, it was a very stupid thing to do and I've learnt my lesson, simple as that really,

William Shakespeare

But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love.

John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Laini Taylor

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Louis Menand

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christian McKay

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Walter Benjamin

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

Walter Benjamin

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

Sandra Tsing Loh

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

Rekalin Sims

We know how terrifying he can be. He can kill us himself.

Twyla Tharp

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

James M. Cain

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

K. A. Applegate

Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.

Richard Flanagan

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.