The Written Quotes
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.
It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.
The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
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.
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
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.'
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.
I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.