Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Writers

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.