Brandon Sanderson Quotes

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.

Brandon Sanderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1975

Topics

I AmFindImportantBuildWriteWho

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Melanie Laurent

MoviesNeverStartedLessonsTheater

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

John Robinson

MeSayingThoughtFakeProblemYou

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Anais Nin

HumanContactRareHuman BeingBeing

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

Mary-Louise Parker

MyselfPeopleMeFaceOutFamiliar

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Josh Homme

MusicWordsOnlyItselfStands

I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we'd sold 35 million records as a band, and I'd had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success.

Dolores O'Riordan

SuccessTimeBestChildMeThought

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

Douglas Kirkland

WorkRespectPeopleImportantSee

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

Anne Lamott

LifeMotherExperienceDayParents

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Marilyn vos Savant

CarTravelKnowWithoutBusYour

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

Junot Diaz

DayI AmReadingPersonKindEvent

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

James Taylor

CharacterMyselfI AmLivingAm

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

Hilarie Burton

CarMeGrowYouNobodyKnow

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