The Written Quotes

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

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

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.