Sabrina Jeffries Quotes

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

Sabrina Jeffries

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• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Done

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Trying
  • Learn
  • Diet

• It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Job
  • Team
  • Best

• I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Procrastinator

• I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Political

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Care

• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Hair

• Writing is a form of licensed madness.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Madness
  • Licensed

• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Present

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

  

  Anne McCaffrey
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Food

• For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn't being unique. Even now, I won't wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those - they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I'm real funny that way.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.

  

  Lynn Good
  • People

• A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Mind
  • Peace

• You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying