Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diablo Cody

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Diana Gabaldon

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Edna Ferber

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Marilyn vos Savant

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Federico Fellini

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Jodi Picoult

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Gene Wilder

What is essential is invisible to the eye,

Samuel Butler

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Liam Gallagher

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

Mark Haddon

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Dick Cheney

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

John Nersesian

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

Christopher Nolan

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

James Keller

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

Brenda Ueland

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ...