The Written Quotes

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

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.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

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.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.

Make a written list of everything you love.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

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.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.