Top 1200 Writing From Famous Authors Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.

Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

No matter how famous you are, there's always somebody more famous than you.

Since I was four, my goal was to be a famous singer and a famous actor.

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

If I'm going to be famous, I want to be famous for doing something good - having talent.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

I never wanted to be famous. The characters I do are famous, and that's fine for me.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce, Proust, and Mann, and Joseph Campbell singled out Joyce and Mann as special favorites. To see them as offering "possibilities for living", as I do, isn't to identify any distinctive commonality. After all, many great authors would fall under that rubric.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

Of course, Jungle Kitty got really famous when I was doing it on 'All Stars 3.' I was just writing the song, and the words came out - that was the state of mind i was in.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.