Best Quotes

26758 Best quotes by 11406 unique authors

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and… — James Surowiecki
I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.… — Sam Walton
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what… — Robin McKinley
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be… — James A. Michener
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers. — Aldous Huxley
The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment… — George R. R. Martin
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be… — Twyla Tharp
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York… — Stephen King
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… — Truman Capote
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every… — Madeleine L'Engle
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words… — Robert Harris
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write. — Ernest Hemingway
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. — Anthony Hope
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it… — Flannery O'Connor
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and… — Ayn Rand
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a… — William Sansom

Who Wrote These Best Quotes

11,406 authors contributed a total of 26,758 Best Quotes, led by these top contributors: