The Written Quotes

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.