The Written Quotes

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and 62.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

I'm so disappointed at what's being written and said about Anil Kumble ... He's been around for over 18 years and his achievements do all the talking.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.